Southern Italy runs on its infrastructure. Those of today, but especially those of tomorrow. There are many work sites open, and even more that will open, contributing to supplying the area with modern, sustainable infrastructure. From high speed trains which, after the Naples-Bari segment, will cross into Calabria as well, to the planned bridge over the Strait of Messina, for which the government has approved a decree to start construction, Southern Italy aims to become a strategic hub in the Mediterranean thanks to its infrastructures.

The 100,000 jobs that the huge work sites for the bridge linking Italy to Sicily would create are only one of the many levers for the economic revival of Italy’s southern regions. High speed train lines, new highways, subways, bridges and urban renewal projects are some of the powerful tools that European, Italian, regional and local funds can place in the hands of the South.

At the end of 2022, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, the Italian railway network, launched two strategic projects: the financing of a 33 kms long segment of the high speed rail line connecting Salerno with Reggio Calabria, and that for a high capacity rail line between Palermo and Catania. While work progresses quickly on the Naples-Bari line, the planning for the infrastructures of the future looks ahead, bringing high speed rail to Calabria and high capacity railways to Sicily for the first time.

These are epochal changes that will contribute to the completion of the ambitious and visionary links planned by the TEN-T (The Trans-European Transport Network), which will join Palermo with Helsinki. Thus a Europe of people and goods takes shape, a truly modern community in which human and commercial exchanges take place along modern infrastructures inspired by the shared principle of sustainability.