Giovanni Castellucci, the former CEO of the Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) highways company, was given a 12-year term on Thursday as the verdicts were handed down for the 2018 Morandi-bridge-collapse disaster in Genoa in which 43 people died. Prosecutors had requested a term of 18 years, six months for Castellucci, who is already in jail as he is serving a six-year term related to a crash on the A16 highway in 2013 near to the town of Monteforte Irpino, in the province of Avellino, in which 40 people died. In total the Genoa court convicted 32 defendants, including the former managers and technical officials of ASPI and its SPEA maintenance and road safety arm, and gave sentences for a total of almost 200 years for homicide, road homicide and culpable collapse. Another 25 defendants were acquitted or had the cases against them timed out under the statute of limitations. Former ASPI number three Michele Donferri got 11 years while the company's ex number two, Paolo Berti, got five years, six months, as did former SPEA CEO Antonino Galatà. Mauro Coletta, the former transport and infrastructure ministry manager in charge of overseeing highway concessions, was sentenced to five years in prison. The prosecution said that many of the defendants knew that the motorway viaduct could collapse but did nothing to prevent this from happening. ASPI and SPEA themselves are no longer involved in the criminal trial after a plea bargain to pay damages of around 30 million euros. On Wednesday ASPI's current CEO Arrigo Giana finally apologized for the disaster on the company's behalf in an open letter published in Corriere della Sera. The remains of the Morandi bridge were demolished and another viaduct designed by starchitect Renzo Piano opened in August 2020 took its place. Piano, a Genoa native, created the design for the new bridge for free as a gift to the city. The audacious new structure has been named the Genoa San Giorgio Bridge. It features sail-like structures, to reflect the northwestern port city's rich maritime heritage.