Messina Bridge co asks environment min for 3 more mts

Needed docs will be filed by mid September says Ciucci

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May 09 2024
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Messina Bridge co asks environ

The company set up to build the Messina Strait Bridge on Thursday asked the environment ministry for three more months to file required documents on the controversial project.
    Stretto di Messina CEO Pietro Ciucci, citing the "exceptional significance of the work", said the needed documents would be filed by mid-September.
    Last Friday Ciucci told ANSA that the world's tallest ships will be able to pass under the future Messina Straits Bridge after logistics federation Federlogistica voiced doubts about mammoth cruise liners and other tall ships getting under what would be the world's longest suspension bridge linking Sicily to mainland Italy.
    Last month the European Parliament approved the updated guidelines for the development of the Trans-European Transport Network (Ten-T), which connects over 420 major cities in the EU, and included in the plan Italy's ambitious project to build the Messina Strait Bridge.
    Work on the bridge will start this summer, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said last month after the environment ministry asked the contracting company to explain 239 parts of the project.
    Salvini has pushed strongly to revive a project mooted by successive past centre-right governments but never actually started due to environmental, mafia infiltration and seismic concerns and the significant cost.
    The bridge currently has a price tag of some 14.6 billion euro ($16.14 billion), or about one percent of Italian GDP, and is scheduled to come into use in the late 2030s.