Tenders launched in Italy for Civitavecchia and Leghorn container terminals
In Italy local port authorities in Leghorn and Civitavecchia are launching international tenders this week to finding investors and/or operators interested at building up and managing new container terminals respectively called Piattaforma Europa and Darsena Energetica Grandi Masse..
Piattaforma Europa at Leghorn is a project that encompasses a new terminal container with 1,100 m quayside, 2 million square metres of yards and will be directly linked to the national network through a rail shuffle with 750 m long tracks. The projected depth is 16m, with further dredging work planned in order to accommodate the latest generation of ultra large containerships. The overall public and private investment will be around €800m ($900m), since the estimated cost of civil works for the construction of the terminal is €606m ($662m) while the forecasted cost of terminal equipment is some €200m ($218m). The new terminal will have a capacity of 1.6m teu yearly.
In Civitavecchia the new expansion project called Darsena Energetica Grandi Masse will cost €510m ($557m), around €200m public and €310m private. Compagnia Porto Civitavecchia is the investment company controlled by Gavio group with Enel and Sodeco also involved as minority shareholder in charge of the building and operating of this multipurpose terminal including dry bulk and container handling activity.
Civitavecchia port authority is now launching a tender to find potential investors interested at developing the project. The project will include a terminal container with 900m of quayside, 18 m depth, 500 square metres yard and a potential troughput of 1 mln teu per year.
