diff --git a/scrapy/utils/project.py b/scrapy/utils/project.py
index 35e59a258..c66af497e 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/project.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/project.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-import pickle
 import warnings
 
 from importlib import import_module