MILAN, August 6, 2025 – “Today, Italy has shown once again how it can come together around a mega project that will be transformative for the whole country. The decision made by CIPESS to approve the Strait of Messina Bridge project marks the start of a new season of vision, courage and confidence in the capabilities of Italian industry and the entire infrastructure sector,” said Pietro Salini, Chief Executive of Webuild, following the CIPESS approval of the project, which will have the longest suspended span in the world. The project belongs to a broader plan to improve mobility between Sicily and the rest of Italy.

"We are particularly proud to be part of the Bridge project - strongly promoted by the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and the Italian Government, and firmly supported by the concessionaire company Stretto di Messina – as leader of the general contractor, Eurolink, working together with the world’s best engineering talent and a vast and excellent Italian supply chain from the north to the south of the country,” said Salini. “The Bridge will bring about a great infrastructure project spread out across many work sites contemporaneously. It will stimulate growth, employment and lawfulness across southern Italy. The project will be fitted with the most advanced technologies for safety and maintenance. It will also be built according to the highest international engineering standards. It will serve as an extraordinary opportunity for the future of young people. Talented Italian engineers, managers and workers from the sector will finally have the possibility to work in their home country on one of the most challenging projects in the world”.

“With a unique expertise developed on the world’s most challenging projects, a team of 95,000 people, and a network of 17,500 suppliers, we are working on some of the biggest infrastructure projects across all continents. In Australia, works range from sustainable mobility to hydropower like Snowy 2.0, the largest committed in its kind in the country. In the United States, we are contributing to the construction of some of the biggest highways. In Saudi Arabia, we are developing a system of dams for Trojena. In Ethiopia, we are completing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the largest in Africa.”

“We have been at the service of the country for 120 years. Our history is linked to public works that have marked the country’s progress: high-speed railways; the “Autostrada del Sole” highway; metro lines in Rome, Milan, and Naples; hospitals, stadiums, and dams. Today, with 30 strategic projects and 18,500 people at work, we continue to strengthen Italy’s competitiveness with infrastructure such as the Brenner Base Tunnel and the high-speed railways Terzo Valico dei Giovi and Verona-Padova. In Southern Italy, we are carrying out 19 major projects that involve approximately 9,000 employees. From the high-speed railway between Naples and Bari to the Ionian highway in Calabria to the expansion of the railway between Palermo, Catania and Messina, we are investing in safety, innovation and training at schools created locally to prepare future generations for our sector.”, Salini concluded

The Bridge will be at the heart of an integrated infrastructure system: more than 40 kilometres of new roads and rail lines, three underground train stations, around ten viaducts and various tunnels, and avantgarde multifunctional centre. These complementary works will have a transformative impact on mobility in the regions that stand to benefit from large infrastructure investments. The Bridge will connect with the railway running between Palermo, Catania and Messina in Sicily, as well as the future Salerno-Reggio Calabria high-speed/high-capacity railway.

Since Ancient Rome, bridges have served as accelerators of economic development in countries, intensifying trade and facilitating industrial development. The Webuild Group has contributed to this history, gaining a track record of 1,022 kilometres of bridges and viaducts – equal to a single bridge between Paris and Berlin. The Group has built bridges and viaducts for more than 300 road and rail projects, the first being in Italy in 1922 with the Recco Viaduct. Its long list of projects has come to include the Long Beach International Gateway in the United States.