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To Venice the conference GreenPort Cruise holds today
to follow the international conference GreenPort
October 11, 2016
The international conference GreenPort will be opened tomorrow to Venice that is anticipated today by the conference GreenPort Cruise, events both accommodated from the Harbour Authority of Venice near the passenger terminal of Marine and that they reunite every year beyond 200 between experts and delegated of the harbour and environmental field. Al center of the four days of debates and encounters to practical Venice is own environmental and the changes necessary in order to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions.
In occasion of the events, the Harbour Authority of Venice has remembered the series of actions "green" that it has got ahead to protection is of the atmosphere that of the competitiveness of the harbour port of call investing beyond 380 million euros: between these, the restoration of the waterfront harbour, a solid campaign of reclamation of beyond 140 hectares of earth and water, escavo and the cleansing of the harbour channels, studies and monitorings for the environmental safeguard but also the resource to energies alternatives and of the natural gas which liquified (GNL) with the perspective to make of Venice the hub logistic of this new fuel for Alto Adriatico.
The harbour agency has evidenced that in this distance of protection of the atmosphere the project for the realization of Offshore Port System (VOOPS joins also), with the construction of new terminal container in order to manage mega the ships, positioned outside from the lagoon, project that, also taking advantage of economies of scale - it has emphasized the authority - the minimal cost of terrestrial transport of the logistic chain assures inside being Venice the door nearer the center of the European manifacturing industry and, side sea, guarantees a saving of 135 kilograms of co2 for every container transported on the marine route Suez-Monk of Bavaria regarding the choice of forwards through the ports of the Sea of the North.
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