The contract for the design of the dredging intervention of the access channel to the Venice Maritime Station is has been awarded to the temporary association of undertakings set up by the engineering companies PROGER AQUA - Consorzio Stabile and HMR Environment. The ATI's proposal has been evaluated, together with the to six others, from the competition commission appointed by Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, President of the Port System Authority of the Northern Adriatic Sea and Special Commissioner for the Implementation of temporary berths and complementary interventions for the protection of Venice and its lagoon and further interventions for the protection of the Venice Lagoon.

With the tender for the maintenance of the canals for the transit of cruise ships along the canal Malamocco-Marghera, to the temporary moorings of Porto Marghera and access to the maritime station, worth two million euro, the ATI was awarded the services of drafting the Technical-economic feasibility project and impact study of the entire intervention (including surveys and investigations) and, for the first excerpt, of the drafting of the project definitive/executive, construction management, safety coordination during the design phase, safety coordination during the execution phase.

With regard to environmental aspects, the ATI will have to carry out specific environmental and hydrodynamic studies as well as to specific navigation simulations that will identify the best balance between the maintenance of the navigation and the size of naval units in transit. Primary importance is given to the evaluation of the effects intervention in relation to the depollution of canals, the Circulation of tidal flows near the Ponte della Libertà as well as the reconstruction of the structures necessary for the implementation of morphological balance.

The project, for the first part, then includes the excavation maintenance of the canal at a depth of -8.0 meters with a Gutter 70 meters wide. The expected volume of sediment to be removed is 655 thousand cubic meters for an investment equal to to €21 million.

This will be followed by the start of the technical activities that will environmental investigations, the drafting of the technical and economic feasibility and documentation for submit the project to the Impact Assessment procedure Environmental and Environmental Impact Assessment. By next September will then be submitted to the EIA Commission the necessary documentation and - following the opinion - will be The drafting of the final/executive design has begun.

"The award," Di Blasio explained, "has identified a grouping of companies that have been awarded the best technical score, even in the presence of a economic discount lower than other offers. In fact, we want to offer the city the most technically because the balance between the environment and the port has long been our point of reference in the commissioner and non-commissioner activities. In fact, although these are ordinary activities such as maintenance excavation to bring back a port canal at the heights provided for by the Port Regulatory Plan existing and existing in the past, the work provides for the drafting of content necessary to be subject to the EIA procedure and V.I.N.C.A. In addition, the project integrates with other activities by the PSA concerning the area of the current Maritime Station with particular reference to the construction of "cold ironing" plants to allow the supply of ships from shore so that they do not use the ships engines in the process of mooring'.