the Harbour Authority of Venice restates that without the realization of the height platform the port does not remain on the market



The Harbour Authority of Venice restates that the realization of the project of the offshore-onshore harbour system, with the construction of a platform of height in a position to receiving the ships that for their draught cannot enter in the Venetian Lagoon, is the only possibility in order to assure that the harbour port of call of Venice is not maintains and increases own competitiveness, but continues to being a landing place of international the marine transport.

According to the agency, "the VOOPS, the Offshore Venice Onshore Port System, do not have alternatives. Only the coupled one conca of Malamocco, mass finally in condition for operating, and height platform, today thought for oil traffics container and - the authority explains - is able to give back to the port of Venice currently which sacrificed on the altar nautical accessibility of the safeguard and of the system of bulkheads you furnish of Mose".

The harbour agency moreover admonishes "to make attention to propose alternatives without to think to the complete scene". "Today that the solution is to the final sieve of the government - the Harbour Authority finds - there is who test to propose a solution B, with a strange alliance between who it fears that the solution To steps (and knows that the best way than to block it is that to produce alternatives B) and who is worried, on the contrary, than (and she does not try to be satisfied of less worse)". For the authority these are "symmetrical" and "obvious errors as soon as memories that the so-called solution B I found myself on the idea of the rifacimento of the navigation lock to Malamocco put in a position to making to pass to the ships new Panamax (long 366 meters, wide 49 and with a draught di15,2) counting on the fact that the Malamocco-Marghera channel in its first feature, until the current port oils of San Leonardo, has useful depths around the 14 meters".

"And up to here - the agency observes - it seems easy, but only if the completion of the scene is neglected. It is obvious that if the ships new Panamax had to be able to enter in lagoon - the authority evidences - would then be necessary to construct around San Leonardo a new port, of sufficient dimensions to receive mega cargos of mega the ships, buttering up part of the lagoon with new cases of overwhelmed and constructing to you to roads and/or railroads of connection to translagunare".

"To imagine of wanting to obtain the green light environmental for such a participation on the contrary lagoon to all the philosophy of the special legislation to safeguard of Venice and of its lagoon - the harbour agency emphasizes - is an historical and cultural nonsense that could reach the single scope to destroy the "plan To": the full restitution of nautical accessibility to the port of Venice thanks to the VOOPS (offshore-onshore harbour system). Let us not be deceived therefore that pack-saddles to increase a conca, with a not inferior state investment to that necessary one for the height platform, in order to resolve the problems of nautical accessibility of Venice".

The harbour authority denunciation that "true "the plan B" would be translate in the renunciation, in perspective, to the harbour development of Venice throwing to the nettles hundred of today convertibile hectares in a harbour future, harbour logistic manufacturer and, to the enormous infrastructural equipment who to Marghera Port is himself accumulated in beyond one hundred history years (only public infrastructures today working has a value of not inferior reconstruction to the three billions of euro), to the facility of railway street connections and, exclusive, of inland navigation of which Venice already is equipped let alone to objective the greater vicinity to the Italian and European manifacturing markets. The industrial reconversion of Marghera Port would then lose without efficient port its greater asset localized to you".

"And if China with strategy OBOR - One Belt One Road has indicated Venice as terminal western of the Way of the marine Silk - concludes the Harbour Authority - it is not for an historical homage to Marco Polo, but a scientific appraisal of the team of experts that has prepared the Chinese strategy. For the east, Venice is the European door of income that diminishes the objective costs of the logistic chain Far East - Europe, they of is sure and is ready to invest and we"