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The offshore-onshore harbour project of Venice is introduced to the International Maritime Organization
Aliperta (Italian representative near the IMO): in front of naval gigantism the Venice solution while still alive guarantees nautical accessibility and the maintenance of "old" the harbour systems
June 5, 2015
The project of the offshore-onshore harbour system of Venice is introduced today to London to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) from the president of the Venetian Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, and from Dimitrios Pachakis and Jim Knott, respective on behalf of Royal Haskoning and BMT Triton, the companies that have been people in charge before to optimize the entire project and the second one to study naval means for the transfer of cargos between the offshore platform planned to wide of the Lagoon of Venice and the docks and destinations onshore.
The offshore-onshore project is thought initially in order to turn out the oil traffic from the Lagoon being received the great oil tankers to the platform of height (offshore), in order to return therefore the Venetian harbour activity with the safeguard of Venice and its Lagoon compatible, and then developed in order to receive in height also modern the mega one portacontainer guaranteeing natural backdrops of beyond -20 meters.
The Harbour Authority has remembered that the project is estimated deserving of a special mention as "replicable" harbour innovation in the world in the within of the Prize for the Innovation in transport 2014 of the International Transport Forum (OECD). The agency has evidenced that the hypothesis to develop the ports with systems offshore-onshore is gone asserting in the world for safety reasons, environmental and moreover economic. The safety reasons push to imagine to carry the antiterrorist verification and antismuggling of the cargo - the control of the cargo of every container - in places sure, to wide, the far ones from the coasts and the cities, where the Italian ports are often found, let alone to use the platforms offshore which ports shelter in case of emergency and incident to the ships.
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In the presentation to London the accent on the regional vocation of hub is put harbour attributed to the devised offshore harbour platform from the Harbour Authority of Venice, attitude that was not conferred to the port of call of height to the action of its ideazione and presentation in 2010 ( on 2 March and 23 september 2010). Then the offshore-onshore system – as remembered from the same Venetian agency - it was born as a project of local interest.
Gradually, also in order to perhaps answer to the perplexities manifested from other ports of Alto Adriatico and to their deep protests for promised in support of one the initiative, is estimated and evidenced the role that the offshore landing place could cover in within not only Venetian, but more wide one. A strategy, this, that he seems more convincing in order to justify investments that many consider excessive in order to make simply yes that Venice has a port for the great ships and in order to pass above the unavoidable diseconomie generated from the transfer of the goods from the offshore one to the onshore vice versa and.
A strategy that carries but to join the Venetian offshore-onshore system to the ports of transhipment, where by now they give to many years consisting containerized trade volumes are reshipped by the employed ships mother on the intercontinental routes to the ships feeder for being distributed in regional within.
If the observations of Aliperta appear founded, new perplexities of the positioning of the platform of height, next rise to light but as it would be to the ports that would have to serve and difficultly in a position to generating the sufficient commercial interest necessary for the creation of an indispensable Network of services feeder in order to connect it to the destinations onshore.
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The Harbour Authority of Venice has emphasized also as the near platforms of height more than a traditional port the great cargos allow to share the traffic flows deconsolidando on more landings place onshore, reducing the impact on the atmosphere are natural are anthropized. The agency has found moreover that the systems offshore (a platform of height) onshore (more platforms to earth) allows to by now enjoy the advantages from minor unitary costs of the bunker of the great container vessels (of the ability to 18.000 teu and beyond) without having to face indefensible costs of adaptation of the existing ports - infrastructural patrimonies that otherwise would be destroyed - and without having to re-adapt all the street, railway connections and of inland navigation to earth for I forward it of the goods.
After the argument it keeps on the Cristiano Aliperta presentations, Italian representative to the IMO, has reassumed the reunion observing that "in front of naval gigantism in existence us they cannot be that three solutions: to concentrate the traffic in little ports and to adapt to mega the volumes of traffic street, railway infrastructures and of inland navigation that serves them, returning in fact great part of existing harbour infrastructures and transport obsolete; to adapt all the ports to receive them, and this is being made in Europe with an enormous investment of resources, today not available; or, "obvious solution", the Venice solution, regaining nautical accessibility with the offshore system, maintaining while still alive "old" the systems harbour and revitalizing the street, railway and fluvial patrimony infrastructural".
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The project of the offshore-onshore harbour system of Venice is introduced today to London to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) from the president of the Venetian Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, and from Dimitrios Pachakis and Jim Knott, respective on behalf of Royal Haskoning and BMT Triton, the companies that have been people in charge before to optimize the entire project and the second one to study naval means for the transfer of cargos between the offshore platform planned to wide of the Lagoon of Venice and the docks and destinations onshore.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
