Legora de Feo, it is necessary to identify alternative solutions
The presentation of an amendment to the bill of conversion of Decree 96/2025 (containing urgent provisions for the organisation and holding of major sporting events, as well as further urgent provisions on sport, so-called “Sports Decree”) which provides for the use of the residual capacity of the reclaimed areas of the port of Naples for materials dredging of the Bagnoli-Coroglio area that will host The America’s Cup has alarmed the National Union of Port Companies (Uniport) which fears a consequent postponement of dredging works of the seabed of the port that are long awaited.
It is – denounced the president of Uniporti, Pasquale Legora de Feo – of “an amendment that risks penalizing the city of Naples and the whole of Campania, postponing further the completion of a work that the port of Naples has been waiting for years.” «The event that will see Naples and its gulf protagonist of a world event, which is the one scheduled to host the America’s Cup – he specified – makes you proud. However, the solutions that would have been identified to carry out the works necessary for this event, many perplexity”. According to Uniport, the proposed solution would bring the port of Naples to its knees, which has been waiting for years for the excavations to have adequate seabed for commercial ships, depriving it spaces already identified to place the materials dredged.
“We are anxiously awaiting,” explained Legora de Feo the completion of the PNRR construction sites precisely to carry out those excavations that represent the survival of the port and of finally activate the Darsena di Levante. Putting competition between them two strategic works for the city of Naples would be a very serious mistake and would put the survival of the one that to all intents and purposes represents the first company in the Campania. The entire Neapolitan maritime-port cluster – has underlined the president of Uniport – is as compact as ever in asking the government and parliament to identify solutions alternatives that combine the coexistence of equally priority for the city and do not jeopardise the completion of works that have been awaited for years and fundamental for the growth of the port of Naples”.
