"Approved the Bridge Decree. The Council of Ministers has given the green light to a text that allows the immediate restart of the design and construction of the work ". Thus a note from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, adding that "unless agreed, the text will be available shortly because the latest technical details are necessary".
"Thus the Strait of Messina Company is reborn, which will have a new and more modern governance. A solid participation of the MEF and MIT is expected, confirming the importance that the government attributes to the stable connection between Calabria and Sicily", continues the MIT.
"Concretely, we start from the final project of 2011 that will be adapted to the new technical, safety and environmental standards. The new authorization process will have to stamp the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world (3.2 kilometers), which will represent the flagship of Italian engineering art", continue from MIT.
For Minister Matteo Salvini it is "a strongly green work: it will reduce carbon dioxide pollution, as well as allowing a substantial saving of time and money for all those who have to cross the strait" and "will be a source of great tourist attraction".
The Bridge, say MIT, "will be a driver of infrastructural growth for both regions, which in fact will have their own director on the board of directors of the company".
The Minister of Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, has unbalanced on the timing of construction: "We hope to approve the executive project by 31 July 2024 and then start with the work". The text also establishes a thirty-year duration of the concession to the company Stretto di Messina, for which the revocation of the state of liquidation intervenes.
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The Strait of Messina, at the point where the construction of the bridge is planned, photographed in October 2022