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This year the works in order to reduce noise and emissions of harbour terminal VTE of Genoa will be under way
In program the electrification of the docks and the realization of the so-called "dune"
February 9, 2016
This year the Harbour Authority of Genoa will proceed to the execution of the contests for the electrification of the docks of the container Voltri terminal Terminal Europe (VTE) and for the realization of the so-called "dune", putting into effect the risistemazione of the works to green of the belt of respect of Prà, the genoese delegation where the terminalistica area of the VTE rises. It has announced admiral Giovanni Pettorino, extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority and commander of the Harbour office of Genoa, in occasion of an encounter with the representatives of the citizens of Prà.
"Our attention on the front of a substantial lightening of the acoustic emissions and atmospheric, let alone on that not secondary of the visual impact - it has emphasized Pettorino - is and remains high". With respect to the electrification of the docks of the VTE and to the realization of the "dune", the admiral has specified that on the electrification it is in program an investment of 12 million euros with resources of the harbour Authority which own of the terminalista comes abreast to a project, with work that would have to drag on until January 2018. For the "dune", the planning and the allocation of the contract are previewed within the year; then they will follow the work of the duration of about nine months. The work, that it is I yield of an understanding with Town hall VII West, previews the realization of a new structure to "dune" in order to shield and to cover the container stacked until the third party shooting and in order to diminish the noises and powders coming from the harbour activities. The "dune" will be integrated with a varied accommodation to green constituted from leafy trees whose hair, besides being pleasant to the sight, will have also a sound deadening effect in order to soothe the acoustic impact of the harbour workings. The species arboreal previewed is the acacia, the carob tree, the common tamarisk, the pine, the acacia of Constantinople.
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