Al Propeller Club of Venice debate on the project of the offshore harbour platform



The project of the new offshore port of out of the Lagoon of Venice, that officially it is introduced in 2010 from the Harbour Authority of the Venetian port with the objective to institute a landing place for the ships that for dimensions or other characteristics cannot reach the current docks ( on 23 September 2010), it continues to provoke contrasting opinions is to Venice that in the harbour cities of Alto Adriatico: there is who considers the solution to it suitable to attract the great routes of international marine traffic towards the ports of the area, who instead deems problematic the technical realization and economic of the project and who she believes that the activity of the new offshore platform would benefit some adriatic ports respect to others. Are topics faced in the course of the meeting of last Tuesday, opened the public, to trade associations and the operators of the transport of all Alto Adriatico, that it has been organized from the Intenational Propeller Club Port of Venice near the Best Western Hotel of Mestre.

In the course of the encounter the project is introduced by Stefano Bonaldo of the area Marine Studies and Transports of the Harbour Authority of Venice in substitution of president Paolo Costa, absent for sudden and intransgressible engagements. According to Bonaldo, solos with the realization of this great project can be contrasted the great ports of northern the European range giving to the Adriatic a new one, great role and an opportunity for Europe.

Bonaldo has remembered that the offshore-onshore system on which is based the project does not constitute "a traditional port of transhipment, but - it has specified - it is a designed system so as to being able to maximize speed of drainage/loaded with the oceanic ships and to diminish the times of gives back to earth; to clear the dock from the operations of I reorder, control, warehouse and rispedizione of the containers and to transfer the container in retroportuali areas quickly, often distant kilometers from the coast, in order to reach superficial of adequate storage and logistic knots, practical this shared from the more efficient harbour operators".

For president of Propeller Club of Venice, Massimo Bernardo, the new offshore platform and NAPA (North Adriatic Ports Association), the association to which joins the ports of Venice, Trieste, Koper and Rijeka, "represent a "theorem" still all to demonstrate not as well as from the progettuale point of view how much of the impact that will be able to have in the world of the shipping. The last word - it has found Bernardo - is up in fact to the great companies of navigation today true decisive protagonists and of the world-wide traffic".

Al beyond the perplexities manifested on the project, Bernardo has launch a more general alarm for the lacked answer the harbour institutions to the appeals of the enterprises hit from the crisis: "in a so difficult moment for our economy, in which it is recorded almost daily, with the offshoring, the escape of our companies towards more pleasant Countries from the fiscal point of view and of the cost of the labor - it has emphasized - the woven desertification of productive of house ours clearly on a collision course appears with the strait relationship that our ports would have to support with own hinterland of reference. In this context - it has concluded the president of Propeller - many are the voices that denounce the several situations from that of Assoporti to that of Federagenti and Fedespedi: everyone continuous one for own road not succeeding to make common synthesis in that complex "made cluster" of infrastructures, structures, carriers, enterprises of services etc that would have to operate in unison and to systemic level in that a lot evoked "coopetition" (competition and competitiveness) true focal point of the project NAPA".