Venice has introduced the project of the offshore-onshore harbour system to the summit of the ITF to Leipzig



The port of Venice is invited to participate to the summit anniversary of the International Transport Forum of the OECD that is in development to Leipzig and that it in transport sees the presence of the ministers of the Transports and the greater representatives of the world of the industry and the search and of the logistics. This year the encounter is dedicated to deepen the importance of the transports "green" in order to try solutions in order to reduce the polluting emissions in order to allow the increase economy of the countries, the economies and the relative places of work in sustainable way.

Evidencing that the ports are directly responsible for a minimal part of the emissions and that, in order to reduce to the maximum the production of co2, the true difference plays on the choice of the "just port" in terms geographic position and operating ability, the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa, in the course of the entitled round table "Innovations for the green marine transport: the role of the ports", it has found that "this concept is particularly valid for the logistic chains between Europe and Far East, in which the marine draft counts for 68% of the emissions of co2, as the market to earth for 30% reaches and, at last, the ports count for 2%. This means - it has specified - than to have able efficient ports to receive mega the ships could allow to pull down the emissions to 30 kg for container for day from current the 120 kg produced from the use of smaller ships that today operate on the route towards east. The choice of an able port to receive mega the ships and near the markets of destination - it has observed Coast - is therefore the key in order to realize sustainable chains that diminish the externalities guaranteeing the connections more breviums and therefore more greens".

Landing place in a position to being climbed from ships of great dimensions that the Harbour Authority intends to construct outside from the Lagoon of Venice realizing a new offshore-onshore harbour system that is able to receive portacontainer gives beyond 18.000 teu, with the objective to altogether reach a annual traffic pairs to 1,5 million teu. Harbour system that is introduced to Leipzig and that, second the Venetian Harbour Authority, will be able progressively to contribute to reach a volume of annual six traffic million teu that it is to the capacity of the ports of Alto Adriatico "if - has specified the agency - these know to cooperate". "To Venice in fact - it has emphasized the harbour agency - the offshore-onshore system will be able to create an only model of development useful to activate a take-off point and escape for the goods that moves along the European corridors of the net TRIES that it diminishes the distances and the emissions between the sea and the new center of the more and more moved European manufacture towards east".