The extension of the Taliercio quay in Marina di Carrara, a work awaited for years in the Apuan port to give breathing room to cruise activity currently forced into close coexistence with commercial traffic, is one of the planned interventions whose full completion has been postponed.
This is evident from the update of the Three-Year Public Works Plan that the Port System Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea has just approved, correcting the document drafted last November. The two versions differ due to an increased need of 26 million euros, spread between 2027 (20 million) and 2028 (6 million), and a consequent “remodulation” of resources over the three years.
In the latest version, in fact, a couple of interventions not included in the first have appeared for 2026, which forced the AdSP to postpone to future years some expenses initially scheduled for this year. The most significant case is that of the 15 million that the authority has now placed on the 2026 agenda for the “new cruise pier in the first port basin of La Spezia – Technical and economic integrations,” perhaps in relation to an unexpected (last November) cost increase of the 49-million-euro contract awarded in 2023, already subject to litigation and delayed compared to the original schedules (the works were supposed to last less than two years).
In the new spending list, then, the “reorganization of functions of the ex Enel pier (sea areas)” also appeared for 2.5 million, while the planned expenditure for the reorganization of the land areas of the same La Spezia pier rose to 1.5 million. In both cases, work will proceed in 2026. Another significant increase is that for the first lot of the “breakwater infrastructure to protect the Malaspina quay,” which will cost 10.5 million instead of the 2.5 million budgeted in November (the cost for the second lot remains at 8 million, in 2027). In this case, however, the annual outlay has been lowered (from 2.5 million to 0.5), with the rest spread over the coming years.
A solution that, as mentioned, the AdSP has implemented on various items, to address the higher expenses that emerged for the current year and leave the total available amount for 2026 unchanged. The most significant case is that of the “works for the extension of the Taliercio quay of the port of Marina di Carrara” totaling 10.8 million: this year only 200 thousand euros will be spent instead of the 9 million planned until a few days ago, the rest next year.
Similar postponements have become necessary, not only in Marina di Carrara – this is the case, for example, of the “works for the construction of service infrastructure for the new eastern gate at the Città di Massa Square of the port in consideration of the waterfront project of the port of Marina di Carrara” – but also for some works of varying weight in La Spezia (for example, the “re-environmentalization interventions of the areas between port and city in the Canaletto and Fossamastra districts” worth 12.5 million, mostly deferred to next year).
A.M.
