Introduced the project for a new coastal warehouse of which liquified natural gas to Marghera Port



Today to Venice the project of the Venice LNG, joint venture is introduced between the Venetians Decal and Saint Marco Petroli, for the realization of a terminal for the which liquified natural gas to Port Marghera, project that the objective has to make of the coastal warehouse of GNL the hub adriatic for this fuel whose question, second the esteem, to 2030 will be pairs to 873.000 tons/year for the port of Venice, for uses left again to 73% for the street transport, to 19.7% for harbour the marine transport and a remaining quota for services/local.

The project previews that the warehouse, that it will be localized to east of the current storage site oils of the Decal in a zone currently interested from the presence of productive activities (former area Italcementi, demolished in 2010), will have a storage capability of 32.000 cubic metres and will be fed by ships small liquefied gas tankers and average in transit cuts (to the maximum ability to 30.000 cubic metres) from the Industrial Channel Sud, while the distribution will be guaranteed through tankers and to metaniere of small size (lighters). The project previews a handling of the volumes of GNL for phases: from the 150,000 initial cubic metres the 900,000 annual cubic metres will reach operatively.

The total investment will be pairs to beyond 100 million euros. Thanks to the interest of the Authority of Harbour System that has operated in synergy with the private ones, the project inside enjoys an European co-financing for the planning and the expenses for the iter authorized you of project GAINN. Al financial moment the plan previews 40% of equity, 40% of loan through BEAUTIFUL or the other financial institutions and 20% by the EU unsecured.

The Authority of Harbour System of the Northern Adriatic has remembered that, in parallel with this project, the agency, in collaboration with the society Reunited Tugs Panfido, is studying, also thanks to the European co-financing, the planning and realization of an innovative lighter for the GNL transport with pusher craft bi-fuel for the distribution and the bunkeraggio of the GNL to the ships, own leaving from the new terminal of Venice LNG.

"I consider - the President of the Authority of Harbour System of the Northern Adriatic has declared, Pino Musolino - than sustainability and technology is two topics that must always go arm in arm, in this new context terminal to GNL is an optimal example of this philosophy. For this we have decided to support the initiative of two private societies with the objective to contribute to promote I use it of the GNL as alternative fuel, is in harbour within that for use terrestrial transport anticipating established how much from the EU. The introduced initiative today joins, moreover, in a national panorama in increasing seen ferment the previewed arrival in the next few years of the first cruise ships (Coast, Aida, MSC) fed to GNL and also of the first ferry (ferries) dual-fuel let alone of the experimentation of fed trucks to GNL, with an once again local supremacy thanks to the investment of the society of logistics and Codognotto road haulage. To be able to count to Venice on a terminal managed for supplying of this new fuel - it has emphasized Musolino - allows us to become the hub adriatic for the refueling of GNL for the new ships and being already ready - today - anticipating the demands for the market".