Posted on May 19, 2025
DEME has begun dredging and coastal defense works as part of the Piattaforma Europa expansion project at the Port of Livorno on Italy’s Tyrrhenian Sea coast.
DEME said the upgrade will help the Port of Livorno become a major logistics hub for Tuscany, with three kilometres of docks, two terminals, and two million square metres of new port area.
Up to 14.5 million cubic metres of material will be dredged, thereby allowing the port’s access channel to be deepened to 17 metres and the internal basins and docks to 16 metres.
The infrastructure scope will meanwhile include the construction of two new breakwaters, the relocation of the existing Meloria breakwater, and reusing dredged material to build the future platform.
The works will have a total cost of approximately €550 million (US$620 million) and an estimated duration of five years from beginning to completion.
The contract for the works was awarded in March 2022 to a consortium that includes Fincantieri Infrastructure Opere Marittime, DEME’s Italian subsidiary Societa Italiana Dragaggi, and two other partners.
