Il Messina bridge it collapses before it is even built. After 42 years and over 300 million euros spent (or rather, throw yourself) between research and development, state of feasibility, design and announcement of 4 international tenders, today at midnight the colossal project to unite Calabria and Sicily should vanish into thin air.
The Board of Directors of the Stretto di Messina company (81% controlled by Anas, whose sole shareholder is the Treasury) met yesterday and was reconvened for today. Barring twists and turns, the company (43 employees and an office in Termini which costs 600 euros a year) should take the path of liquidation. today, in fact, the deadline for the addendum between the Strait of Messina concessionaire and the Eurolink general contractor expires (business association led by Impregilo with 45%).
"There have been no concrete signs - said the Minister of Economic Development and Infrastructure yesterday, Corrado Passera -. In November we issued a decree law which set the conditions under which the project could be kept open and we were given 4 months (that is, until March 2006st) to reformulate the agreement with the General Contractor: but since there was no news, a once the deadline has not been respected, what the law provides will happen: the contract signed in XNUMX between the Strait of Messina and Eurolink will lapse”.
The operation should cost the state 45 million euro, not the 312 maximum penalty provided for in the contract, in addition of course to the money to liquidate the Strait of Messina company.
