the port of Venice is being equipped for the employment of the GNL in the marine traffics and the logistic activities



The Harbour Authority of Venice is managing a plan for the availability of natural gas refuelings which liquified for storage and the road haulage goods and, in the within of European projects GAINN (Gas Innovation Network), is previewed also the development of a logistic terminal in the harbour area of Venice with station of refueling for nautical and terrestrial means, beyond to some projects of reconversion of the motorization of some boats, as a tug, to the aim to use this ecological fuel.

The initiatives for l '' I use of the GNL in the Venetian port are illustrated yesterday in the course of workshop "GNL and new opportunity for" on the road organized transport from the Harbour of Venice and Venice Confindustria and promoted Authority in the within of the European project POSEIDON MED co-financed from the Program TRY, that it has the objective to realize a Masterplan for the infrastructure development for GNL and other solutions to low environmental impact.

In the course of the encounter it is remembered that the European directives on fuels I impose within a 2020 extreme reduction of the level of sulfur and the other polluting ones. Moreover esteem that, within 2030, between 10% and 20% of the consumption will be to GNL for effect of the advantages in fiscal terms, of the norm favorable to the development of producing to minor environmental impact, of the availability of the produced one and of means. Between the advantages of the GNL, besides the reduced costs, the greater autonomy of distance and the minor environmental impact: this fuel, regarding the diesel oil, pulls down of 20% the carbon dioxide emissions and of the 70-80% the oxides nitrogen, while the emissions in thin powder and sulfur dioxide atmosphere are completely absent (eg. PM10), particularly important aspect for Venice. The fuel in a position to satisfying the objectives that is the 20-20-20 (reduction of 20% of emissions of co2) as the GNL, can act as fly also for the marine traffics and the activities logistic effectively, long-lasting and respectful of the atmosphere.

The USA and Far East are currently leader regarding the use of the GNL in transport thanks to economic and normative conditions that assure the competitiveness of the which liquified natural gas regarding traditional fuels. In Europe there are about 50 gas stations and numerous terminals for the drainage of ships to metaniere and systems of storage, above all in the Europe North where work more numerous fleet GNL to the world, while in Italy the first steps are moving.

"He is crucial for the port of Venice - it has found Claudia Marcolin, general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice - to be one of the main actors inside international a strategic plan that the energetic field is revolutionizing and that finds in the ports its natural base. It means to go back in the oil so-called traffics and to have infrastructures in a position to receiving the GNL and other energetic sources today spendable alternatives on the market and not mere experimentations".

Explaining that the initiatives introduced in the course of the encounter have the objective to increase efficiency and sustainability of the fleets and at the same time they are able to give concreteness to the objectives of most recent and tightening normative European in matter of reduction of the environmental impact, Marcolin has announced that "the complete Masterplan also of the contributions of the other ports of call of involved Alto Adriatico and the other partner in the project will be introduced to November 2015 where - it has specified - we will be able to understand which is the real basin of user".

The president of Confindustria Venice, Matteo Zoppas, has found as the workshop has put together two of the strategic vocations of the Venetian area: the new logistics and the manifacturing one. "They are - it has evidenced - guiding that will have to guide the policies of development of Marghera Port on which we can already boast excellence competences. Various they are the projects and the already operating initiatives to Venice and in its outback that inspire to sustainable activities and lowland environmental print: the port of Venice - Zoppas has remembered - has conquered, for the umpteenth year, the palm of port more green of the Mediterranean and is flagman of the project of reduction of the emissions in the Adriatic that Europe has fixed as goal to 2025; to Marghera the project Hydrogen Park with all has been born the fallen back ones in terms of employment of the hydrogen also for nautical mobility; and still the bioraffineria of Eni and Ceral Docks and headquarters to Great biomasses of Molini. A cognitive investigation on the economic activities presents in the industrial area of Port Marghera 2013 has put in evidence the increasing weight of "green economy" in the industrial area: 86 companies (about 10% of the total) that 2,369 people appoint to a job. In these numbers it is the future of Marghera and the ransom from its past. The industry can still speak his mind in this territory and a strategy of immense area - own of the Metropolitan City - to be of new towing to the development".