Transport and Infrastructure
Minister Danilo Toninelli said Tuesday that a "very important"
decree for Genoa will be presented at Friday's cabinet meeting
following last month's bridge-collapse disaster in which 43
people were killed.
Toninelli, a member of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), told the
Lower House's environment committee that the decree would
contain "help for families with their mortgages and help for
businesses with tax breaks".
He said that Fincantieri could be tasked with building the
viaduct that will replace the Morandi bridge, saying the
government was in talks with the European Commission to see
whether it is possible to assign the contract immediately
without a tender.
"Work (on the new bridge) will have to be completed within a
year," Toninelli said.
The government has said it wants to annul the concessions of
highways company Autostrade per l'Italia following the disaster.
Toninelli said an overhaul was coming, with the concessionary
obliged to reinvest a large chunk of its profits in modernizing
the network.
Prosecutors investigating the disaster, meanwhile, have got
hold of a new video of the moment the bridge collapsed, sources
said.
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