Venice loses the service directed with Far East and the Harbour Authority restates the indispensability of the VOOPS



The Harbour Authority of Venice complains the loss by the lagoon port of call of the only marine service of line directed with Far East that the slid spring is inaugurated ( of the May 2016), loss - it has denounced the agency - that is a "disaster" that "will cost per year to the industries of East North at least ten million euro for greater shipping charges". The agency has evidenced that this disastrous abandonment, "is hoped - has specified the authority - temporary", could have been avoided "giving back to the port with the VOOPS (Offshore Venice Onshore Port System) nautical accessibility today sacrificed to Mose". The VOOPS is in fact the onshore-offshore harbour system devised from the harbour agency in order to equip Venice of a marine landing place in deep waters outside from the lagoon.

The Harbour Authority has explained that in the service previously a portacontainer was employed of the ability to 6.500 teu that comes now replaced with a ship from 10.000 teu that will not reach Marghera more because does not have more way than to enter and to exit fully loaded from the Lagunari docks. The agency has rimarcato that the abandonment has not had "to market lack, indeed, but for the limits physicists that the port of call has, in spite of the huge job of escavo and modernization of the docks realized in these years from Harbour Authority and the operators who have made of Venice the second more efficient port of call after Genoa for handling container".
Adjustment of the 3/11/2016:
Contrarily to how much official notice from the Harbour Authority of Venice, the service in the Adriatic North will continue to scale also the port of Trieste.
The harbour authority has found moreover that draft of "a news unfortunately attended that it is harmful to the harbour economy, but a lot more to the manufacture and productive other asset of the entire northeast and the Lombardy oriental. The ship - it has specified the agency - in fact will scale alone the Koper in order to serve Adriatic oriental from the North the markets Austrians and of the east Europe. The markets today served from Venice (Po Plain, Switzerland, and south of Germany) will come partially reached with a feeder from Koper, but they are destined to return to being served from the ports of call of Alto Tirreno (if they do not give those of the Sea of the North via Gottardo)".

Specifying to have estimated with Confetra that such abandonment will exactly cost to the sun enterprises of the northeast not less than 10 million euros per year, the Harbour Authority has denounced that they are "greater costs and smaller competitiveness that the entire northeast will have to put up with for every year of delay in the realization of the able offshore-onshore harbour system to give back to Venice, but also to Chioggia, Portolevante and Mantua, that ability to attraction of the traffics fundamental for the increase of the economy of the industries that on it are based. A myopia of "the competent" authorities - it has concluded the agency - that is costing much beloved to the Venetian economy and of the East North; a prophecy for a long time announced, than we would not have never intentional to see to come true and to which we hope it wants to soon give answer with the realization of the VOOPS".