Work is about to begin on the construction of the container terminal of the Montesyndial area in Porto Marghera ( of 28 July 2022 and 19 July 2023). The handover of the areas has been carried out in recent days by the Port System Authority of the Sea Northern Adriatic to the consortium of companies that awarded the contract for the first section composed of Fincantieri Infrastructure Opere Marittime Spa, as agent with a share of 41.56%, Trevi Spa with 22.02%, C.G.X. Costruzioni Generali Xodo Srl with 21.92% and Zeta Srl with 14,50%.

The companies will now proceed to infrastructure an area of about 8.5 hectares, to create the quay, the square behind it (quay area and hatch area) within the first 50 metres and lead to completion of the excavations of the West Industrial Canal up to the height of -12 meters provided for by the Port Master Plan and the project, with a 35-metre setback of the current canal bank to Achieve a final channel width of 190 meters.

Born as an onshore component of a larger project that It also included an offshore terminal, the Montesyndial is now a fully autonomous project and entrusted to the management of the commissioner. The disused industrial area has a total area of 90 hectares with a quay front of about 1,600 meters that will be able to accommodate ships of Panamax-class, enabling an annual traffic of up to one million teu.

The project - which followed a long procedural process and authorization at the end of which all the necessary authorisations, including Assessment opinions Environmental Impact and related compliance verification - is divided into three excerpts. In addition to the first excerpt, affected by the works that will start in the next few days, it is expected to be carried out a second section characterized by an intermodal platform equipped with a double rail beam that will connect the infrastructure of the national railway network and a third section including container storage areas, roads and service systems.

The overall economic picture, reassessed on the basis of the the update of the feasibility project and current prices, amounts to €428 million currently partially funded.

"We firmly believe - underlined Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, Commissioner Montesyndial and President of the Port Authority - in project for the new Montesyndial terminal for which the Authority and the commissioner structure have allocated more resources than the for any other infrastructure built so far in the ports Lagoon. We are enhancing a brownfield, which is a huge area a disused industrial plant that, reclaimed and infrastructured, will return to the to create value and employment. An intermodal hub capable of managing up to one million TEUs, multiplying the current trade in full containers, a high value-added sector intended for in particular to serve the productive fabric of Veneto and the North-East, and which will attract investment from operators, both between those historically established in Venice and among new subjects international markets'.

'The implementation of the new infrastructure laid in in the southern area of Porto Marghera - added Di Blasio - It is also part of the port's transformative strategy that aims to regenerate abandoned and polluted land, while reducing the minimal interference between logistic-production areas and commercial and residential'.