Also the Commission of national WAY unanimously approves of the project of the harbour terminal of height of Venice



After the green light of the Commission VIA (appraisal of environmental impact) of the Region of Veneto of Wednesday, the project of the harbour terminal of height of Venice has obtained the unanimous approval also by the Commission of national WAY. "The ministry of the Atmosphere - it has announced the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa - in fact has communicated today that offshore oil and the container of Venice has obtained the positive judgment of environmental compatibility of the national Commission".

"Draft - it has emphasized Coast - of a step of enormous importance for the advance of this project, obtained in less than a year from its presentation. Finally the fixed environmental objective with the Special Law for Venice of 1974 to turn out the oil traffics from the Lagoon today, after beyond 40anni of frustrated attempts, could be reached. The rapidity of the procedure and the limited number of observations, moreover in great part migliorative, on a published project in order very two times - it has found the president of the harbour agency - contributes to strengthen the conviction that this is the right roads to follow and it relieves to us on the goodness of a project that it pursues, and can satisfy, more than a objective than national, European interest and nordestino. Firstly already mentioned the objective one to turn out the oils from the Lagoon; but then that to increase - with the adaptation of the port of call of Venice that goes to join to analogous adaptations of the other ports of the Alto Adriatico system, constituted from the port of Ravenna and the ports NAPA (North Adriatic Ports Association) of Venice, Trieste, Koper and Fiume whom they are collaborating - that scale of activity that will make of Alto Adriatico a winning gateway in the marine feeding from South of central Europe and oriental".

"The offshore one to the wide one of the mouth of Malamocco - it has concluded Paolo Costa - allows, moreover, the mass in value of infrastructures of all Northeast: from the harbour terminals of Marghera, Chioggia and Porto East, from the interporto of Padua to that of Verona, from the idroviaria auction from Venice to Padua to the Po idroviario system until Rovigo and Mantua. The offshore-onshore system portule of Venice at last puts on hand of the Italian harbour system able a technological and organizational innovation to increase of its competitiveness on a European scale".

The Harbour Authority has remembered that the offshore terminal will be constructed offshore together with the terminal oils. The chosen site is to eight miles nautical from the coast where the natural grounds are of about 20 meters. The new harbour platform in deep waters will be protect by long a outer dam 4,2 kilometers. Besides the oil terminal, the platform will be composed from a terminal container in a position to making to land until three container vessels of last generation to a long dock a kilometer. The onshore terminal will be realized in a called area "MonteSyndial" of 92 hectares and, already in 2013, 36 hectares will be ready and available for potential investor. The endowed of a dock of 1.400 meters and placed area in industrial the harbour zone of Marghera Port; the west appears on the industrial Channel that allows a draught of 12 meters, is connected through a basin of evolution to the Malamocco-Marghera channel that is the way of nautical access to the sea.

For the realization of the entire project, included the offshore terminal to sea, the onshore terminal of earth, the system of nautical connection - the Mama Vessel (semisubmersible ships) and the Cassettes (216 cargo units that carry container teu) - between offshore terminal and onshore terminal and in order to equip the terminals with appropriate cranes - the Steel Crane Frame (planned ad hoc for the transfer of the container from oceanic truck ship/train) - it is estimated total costs pairs to about 2,8 billion euros. A figure - it has specified the harbour authority - susceptible of decreases once introduced ulterior technological solutions and innovations it is in the armament of the equipment offshore-onshore, is in the optimization of the transfer service container, but that he decidedly remains however important. The agency has specified moreover that, to clearly than the State will have to finance (the outer dam and the oil terminal of the offshore one, in ossequio to prescribed how much from which objective Legge 798/84 where previewed of national interest the removal of the oil traffic from the lagoon), is necessary to characterize financing forms alternatives. "- It has explained the Harbour Authority - the necessity to involve in profitable way the private sector and the private financing here and in particular to identify the several opportunities that the various forms of partnership public-private are able to offer to light also of the current crisis of liquidity that currently characterizes the market".

The Venetian harbour agency has emphasized that the previewed offshore-onshore system from the project allows to reach seven objectives: to turn out from the Lagoon of Venice the oil traffic that today sees the oil tankers to berth to the lagoon terminal of San Leonardo; to allow nautical accessibility with the port of Venice and therefore the operativity of the same one also when the conditions weather demand the protection of Mose for the environmental safeguard of the Lagoon; to put the Italian harbour system in condition today for receiving also the greatest container vessels under construction and exercise; to contribute, with the other ports of NAPA, to guarantee traffic volumes that justify the feeding from the Mediterranean of Europe center-oriental in coherence with European politics of construction of the net IT TRY essential thing, that it sees Alto Adriatico as outlet of the European corridors the Adriatic Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean and Helsinki - the TV assistant; to contribute to the reconversion to fine harbour and logistic of wide harbour and industrial areas dismesse to Marghera Port and to the development of other easy approachable coastal areas from the height terminal; of so giving harbour base to the logistic system of the East North centralized on the interportuali excellence of Verona and Padua reducing the "improper logistic tax" that weighs on the Italian productive system; to put in value the system of inland navigation along the connected Pò and channels being offered, through the ports of Venice, Chioggia, and Port East and internal the fluvial port of Mantua, other possible points of exchange sea/river and river/earth.