Salini insists: “Webuild ready to build the Bridge over the Strait: it would employ 100,000 people”

MILAN – The Bridge over the Strait of Messina “is the only project that can start in the South”. This was stated by the CEO of Webuild Pietro Salini, explaining that it is “a project that we have in our portfolio and we are ready to start immediately”.

“It is impossible to imagine a High Speed ​​train between Naples and Palermo – adds Salini – which must stop in Reggio Calabria to continue by ferry to Messina”. Furthermore, the work can employ “over 100 thousand people” in the South.

“We are ready to leave immediately – Salini reiterated – and to create new jobs in the South to optimize the connection of the high-speed lines from Naples to Sicily”. The Webuild group has in fact acquired, together with Impregilo, also the Eurolink project for the bridge over the Strait which was approved at the beginning of the 2000s before being scuttled by the Monti government. The estimated cost is currently 8.56 billion.

In the infrastructure sector – he said – “we see a turning point in Italy and we want to consolidate our presence on the national market with a share that can reach 25-30% of our activities”.

Salini pointed out how the “new scale of the Group” following the merger with Astaldi could allow Weibuild to “seize the opportunities” linked to the recent measures for the infrastructure sector. In our country he recalled “there are projects to be released for 94 billion, of which about 27 are linked” to the Recovery Fund.