The project of the offshore terminal of Venice in the shortlist of the prize to the innovation of the ITF



Today to Leipzig, in the within of the summit anniversary of the International Transport Forum (ITF) on the topic "Transport for to changing world", it is assigned the 2014 Promising Innovation in Transport Award, acknowledgment that this year is conferred to Xerox, in order to have realized a system based on sensors of guide in the parking of vehicles with the objective to reduce the traffic and the street congestion, and to Holland Container Innovations (HCI), spin-off of the Dutch Delft University of Technology, in order to have realized the collapsible container for marine transport 4FOLD with the scope to reduce the economic and environmental costs of the shipment of container empty.

The jury of the prize has inserted in shortlist also the project of the offshore terminal of Venice, introduced in 2010 from the Harbour Authority of the lagoon port of call ( on 23 September 2010), with the motivation that "the project represents a proposed interesting that it has the possibility to be replied in other ports with insufficient draught". "We are honored - the president of the Venetian harbour agency has declared, Paolo Costa - than the project is recognized with this I find from the jury of the ITF. It is an important acknowledgment for a project of a "harbour car" between most innovative and oriented to the future, devised from the port of Venice in collaboration with its advisor (PwC, Lombardo&Associati Law firm, BMT Triton, Halcrow, Royal Haskoning, in order to cite of some). The infrastructure will be able to tackle to the future changes of the marine transport of 21° the Century".

The project devised from the Harbour Authority of Venice previews the construction of an offshore, able harbour system to enliven 1,5 million teu, in railway, street connection and via inland navigation with other ports of the Adriatic. Placed eight miles to the wide one of the coast, with deep natural backdrops at least 20 meters, the offshore harbour platform will be protect by long a outer dam 4,2 kilometers to whose inside an oil terminal and a terminal will find space container in a position to at the same time accommodating three container vessels of last generation and will be connected with special ships LASH to the various onshore terminals. Along the dock they will find place purposely crane planned and a system to high automation with the objective to guarantee boarding performance/disembarkation pairs to those of the best world-wide terminals. The Venetian agency has emphasized that the entire system will be able to create "critical mass" in order at least six million teu and to operate as only hub within the 2030 (year in which the net will be totally operating TRIES).