a delegation of Commission ITRE of the European Parliament has reached today in the port of Venice



Today a delegation of the Commission Industry, Search and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament has reached in the port of Venice for an encounter with the Harbour Authority of Venice and for a visit to some industrial terminals of Marghera Port. To the delegation, guided from president Amalia Sartori and the vice president Patrizia Toia, the president of the harbour agency Venetian Paolo Costa and its collaborators have illustrated the situation and the developments in course thesis to take advantage of "the portocentriche" new trends of the modern manifacturing activities.

The harbour authority has evidenced that the key industries as petrochemical or the metalworker the vicinity to the "mine" looked for a time in the ports, while today the manifacturing industry of transformation looks for in the ports the vicinity at the market. Equally it is worth for all the logistic activities. It is so that, abandoned in fact petrochemical and base metallurgy, today to Marghera new activities are being developed more "to read" and more "greens": green refinery, chemical agricultural and food- green and of quality is the fields on which Marghera Port is already coming back to life with a general transformation of old production lines online of distribution.

In the course of the visit the delegates have participated to a session of the Green Mobility Show near the passenger terminal of Marine and then they have continued the visit towards accompanied Marghera Port from technical staff of the Harbour Authority for a deepening on the harbour activities and the role played from the Venetian port of call in the panorama of Italian infrastructures to service of the European markets.

Particular interest is demonstrated for the projects of development of the hooligan-wide band in the harbour areas, initiative that will allow to increase the efficiency of the port, safety of the data and the safety allowing a sure berthing and I approach facilitated for the ships, the timely information on events and incidents and in general terms all the informative services that regard the goods. Moreover which liquified natural gas is introduced the study in course on the use of LNG () that the Harbour Authority is leading inside of the call Tries 2013 in order to deepen the availability of LNG in Adriatic North, the question of the potential interested customers (ships, public transport, navigation in internal waters), logistic distribution, etc

"On behalf of the Commission - Amalia Sartori has declared - I thank president Costa for the opportunity of this visit. The European colleagues have appreciated the continuous stimulus to the innovation and the future strategies delineated for this historical port. Its development will be fundamental for the increase of the area of the Mediterranean and Europe".

"The visit to Marghera Port - Paolo Costa has commented - has been crucial for being able to take vision of the reconversion in concrete terms today in existence, been profitable possible for the exhaustion of productive cycle who has lost in the time some of its comparative advantages (the energy and labor to comparable costs with the concurrent producers) and for permanere of those comparative advantages (vicinity to the sea and therefore vicinity to the raw materials and at the market, infrastructure wealth, forces characterized job, breeding grounds of search and innovation, economies of agglomeration) that they could be the base for the construction of Marghera tomorrow and I throw again also in key occupational".