Today the Management Committee of the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea has approved the assignment of a new state concession to the Piedmontese Vezzani which is related to the complex of assets located inside the terminal dock of the South Industrial Canal in Marghera, consisting of the Sirma berth and the state-owned strip back for the performance of port operations on behalf of third parties embarkation and disembarkation from car carrier ships of rolling stock vehicles in in particular passenger cars, new or used, and possibly of commercial, industrial and agricultural vehicles ( of 22 November 2024).

The new concession with a total duration of 25 years will start from the date of making available the state-owned assets to the company, scheduled for the end of next month, and provides for the payment of an annual fee of 173,563 euros, as provided for by the current regulation of state-owned maritime concessions. About the area object of the concession, Vezzani undertook to carry out interventions for 5.1 million euros, including the structural reinforcement and expansion of the Sirma pier, the installation of mooring dolphins for the protection of the pier and the docking of ships, the excavation of the seabed in the vicinity of the berth to ensure a homogeneous draft on the quay, the laying of mooring bollards along the state-owned strip and the arrangement of the flooring and the walking surface of the fascia state property.

"The granting of the concession to Vezzani - explained the president of the port authority, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio - followed the procedure provided for in the FTA and this translates into terms chronological periods considerably reduced compared to the ordinary. The Single service conference and the use of the One-Stop Shop In fact, it has made it possible to quickly collect the urban planning and state property opinions of all the competent bodies and define a business proposal, approved in the offices and today by the Management Committee, useful for the development of A sector, the automotive sector, expected to grow strongly in the port of Venice. Porto Marghera once again demonstrates the great attractiveness that distinguishes it in the market also attributable to the enhancement of private areas behind the docks, as happened in this case, depending on the port activities. This allows, as in this case, to positively recognize those industrial programs, presented companies, which propose investments and projects aimed at environmental sustainability, technological innovation, to the increase in traffic, to the development of the to the growth of employment and productivity of the port and the productive fabric of Veneto. Vezzani's - said Di Blasio - is an important investment that concerns a fast-growing market and is part of the most extensive project for the production conversion of an industrial area of 27 hectares of disused land, also served by a railway junction; One Logistics solution that will allow the Veneto port system to strengthen its trade relationship with Europe as well central-eastern one".