The work of the bridge over the Strait are ready to Start at the end of April. To announce it is Peter Saline The CEO of Webuild, a company at the helm of the Eurolink Consortium in charge of the construction of the work.
By presenting the financial results of 2024, the manager took stock of the infrastructure, stating that the approval process is almost finished, pending the green light of the Cipess, and providing for the completion of the work By 2032.
The words of Pietro Salini
“We are obviously ready – said Salini – as well as all industrial partners, to proudly start this very important project for Italy and especially for the South. The duration of the Design & Construction phase is estimated in 7 and a half years and the completion is scheduled for 2032. I hope to be there and to be able to cross it together with the whole team by the end of 2032”.
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, The CEO of Webuild underlined the great relevance for the Italian project industry, which can give work to “thousands of young people” and which will be important above all for the South, allowing the connection with the rest of Europe of “five million people“.
The point on the project
The project of the bridge over the Strait provides for an expense of 13.5 billion eurosincluding the construction of 40 kilometers of connections on tracks, roads and highways, of the three new railway stations and the directional center in Calabria.
The work includes the creation of a bridge of 3,666 meters in lengthwith a suspended span of 3,300 meters, at a height of over 72 meters from the sea level and a width of 600 meters.
The investment that must be endorsed by Cipessthe Interministerial Committee for economic planning and sustainable development, called to approve the financial plan.
The webuild project on deselars
In parallel to the construction sites of the bridge over the Strait, webuild would be ready to present a project with private capital and a marginal public expenditure, “to resolve the emergency forever drinking water in Sicily“, As the Ad Salini claims.
“In two years, deselars can be built, restoring storage basins, implementing the network and installing new pruning,” said the manager, convinced that those related to water are the investments of the future.
The administrative delegate of the construction group recalled i 330 projects Launched in the last ten years, 30 in Italy, during a meeting with analysts on the presentation of the 2024 accounts of the multinational.
The results of Webuild made a growth of 12 billion euros of revenues, with an increase of +20% compared to 2023, a net profit risen to 247 million from 236 million of the previous year and gross operating margin that exceeds waiting, reaching 967 million, +18%.
Figures that are “the result of a clear and coherent strategy that we have pursued since 2012”, underlined Salini, which also claimed higher growth margins in Italy, where the group turnover is equal to just under 2% of the overall market.
