Al via the participations of dredging in the port of Gioia Tauro



Tomorrow, with the arrival of the dredge Volvox Atlanta of the Dutch Van Oord, they will begin the work of dredging of the backdrops of the port of Gioia Tauro in the feature that interests the basin of evolution south and a first part of the harbour channel, for a length of about 1.500 meters. , in order to in the presence of guarantee the transit of the ships in safety in the channel also the new portacontainer super post-Panamax moored to the docks.

The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has remembered that the work is determined two main objectives: that to improve safety of the harbour operativity, guaranteeing a greater efficiency in terms of marine navigability, and that to preserve the emerged beach before the port. Draft of an participation inserted in an immense program of development and functional adaptation of put harbour infrastructures in existence from the technical department of the agency.

"The objective prince, place to the center of politics of the Harbour Authority - she has emphasized the agency - is that to inside maintain and to consolidate the leadership of the port of Gioia Tauro of the international circuit of the marine traffics, animated more and more from the giants of the sea. Between the participations, put already in existence and which thought in order to offer to the port the ability to answer totally to the challenges launch from the market, is concluded the increase of the harbour channel, widened from 200 to 250 meters, defining so a new axis of navigation. Complementary to this operation of increase of the channel, the relative dredging has been programmed, that will leave next 20 March. Tip, so, to conform the part of the grounds of the new axis of navigation to that of the old axis, in order to improve safety of the ships in the arrival maneuver and more altogether in order to assure the greater safety, functionality and fruibilità of harbour infrastructures in sight, exactly, of the increase of the dimensions of the ships that call in port".

Cubic metres of sandy material will be interested by the work about 567 thousand that will be employed for the fill of the before beach the port. Its morphologic profile will be so reconstructed, as expected in the original project of realization of the port channel, in order protect it from the evidenced erosive effects from the numerous studies already carried out. Moreover its coastal ecosystem will be preserved reducing the generated environmental impact from the dredging through its res-use.