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According to the Bank’s website, the project concerns the development of a new port area by expanding the existing facilities towards the sea, including new breakwaters, land reclamation and dredging works at the Port of Livorno.
The Promoter's large investment programme aims at developing the existing port facilities to increase the capacity, improve the efficiency and enhance the maritime accessibility.
This programme includes the construction of a new breakwater and channel system to accommodate future terminals and upgrade the maritime accessibility.
EIB's financing will be focused on Phase 1 of this investment programme, which includes the new North breakwater (and an associated basin to deposit dredging spoils), the re-profile of the existing Meloria Breakwater, the new south Breakwater and the dredging of the access channel to new and the existing port areas.
An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA - VIA) was initiated in February 2022 and after two rounds of public consultation and integration of comments a Decision was issued on 11 March 2024 by the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security in coordination with the Ministry of Culture (Decreto DM_2024-0000081) on the basis of the positive opinion issued by the CTVIA (Commissione Tecnica di Verifica dell’impatto ambientale VIA e VAS), on 14 December 2023.
According to the Environmental Impact Assessment Report and the Decision, the main environmental impacts, can be divided in temporary impacts during the construction and permanent impacts during operation. The ones qualified as significant include impacts to:
Contact: Lorenzo Squintani
Email: l.squintani@eib.org
Phone: +352437982528
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