Webuild, as part of a consortium, has won a contract worth approximately €660 million (US$767.7 million) to build the first section of Lot 1 of the new Line 10 of the Naples metro network in southern Italy. The lot is part of a broader project involving an estimated total investment of more than €3.1 billion, which is set to transform mobility in the city’s northeastern area. Line 10 will have driverless trains. Once fully operational, it will enable more than 400,000 residents to benefit from a fast and sustainable connection to the city centre and the high-speed rail network. The Line 10 Metro mega-project was developed in collaboration between the Municipality of Naples and the Campania Region (with EAV, overseeing the works). It will connect the city centre to the Naples-Afragola high-speed rail station, already built by the Webuild Group. The station is set to become a strategic hub linking Northern and Southern Italy and integrating regional and national transport systems.

Lot 1 includes the executive design and construction of civil works for Line 10, which will be carried out in phases. The contract covers approximately €660 million already awarded for the first 6.5 km(Phase 1A). It also grants the exclusive right to execute additional works – pending financing – up to a total value of more than €1.7 billion for the future completion of the line. The consortium includes Webuild, Eteria Consorzio Stabile, Costruire, ICM, and M.N. Metropolitana di Napoli. The route of Line 10, which will be approximately 14 km long from Naples-Afragola high-speed station to Principe Umberto station, will be almost entirely underground, with tunnels excavated using traditional methods and tunnel-boring machines (TBMs). Phase 1A works will cross the municipalities of Afragola, Casoria, Casavatore and Naples, and have seven stations: three to be built (Di Vittorio, Casoria Centro, Afragola) and four to be partially built in this first phase (Casavatore San Pietro, Casoria Casavatore, Casoria Afragola, Afragola Garibaldi). The completion of the line will include an additional 7.3 km of line and 5 stations, the completion of the four stations partially built in Phase 1A, and other related works, such as the construction of a new parking facility serving the Naples-Afragola high-speed station.

The 12 stations planned for the entire project will be built with minimal impact on the urban surroundings, reaching depths of up to 45 metres, with tunnels featuring an internal diameter of 8.6 metres. Line 10, which will serve several densely populated municipalities in the Naples periphery and bring metro access to neighbourhoods currently not served by the metro network, will become a key component of the city’s public transport system thanks to new interchange hubs with Naples Metro Lines 1, 2, and 11, as well as the Circumvesuviana railway.