The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Settentrionale has published the tender for the assignment of the provision of port work in the port of Chioggia, as planned Article 17 of Law 84/94, for a period of four years renewable for another four years. The total amount based on of the procedure is equal to 960 thousand euros for a four-year period. The Port Authority specified that the call, which provides for a deadline of presentation of the offers on 31 March, concludes a long process of discussion with trade union representatives and terminal operators and takes into account the trade union guidelines signed in July 2023 aimed in particular at the introduction of a social clause to protection of workers and the tender strategy based on two calls for tenders one for Venice and one for Chioggia. The port authority has highlighted that the assignment of the supply of port work represents an unlocking for a fundamental service for the operation and competitiveness of the airport, service now loaned by Serviport scarl under an extension regime.

The optimal operational headcount of the authorised company to the provision of the service in Chioggia is set at 20 units, including the President and Vice-President, with the provision that the any redundancies, amounting to seven units, will be ensured, thanks also to the support of the trade unions, the Job protection with recruitment priority in the Venetian port. This path had been established as part of the drafting of the guidelines and downstream of the formal steps in Advisory Commission and Management Committee.

"The port of Chioggia - commented the president of the Port Authority, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio - has room for growth and potential that we are trying to enhance and relaunch. From the beginning we have tried to support the development of the airport introducing new traffic sectors, such as cruise industry, and working on efficiency and implementation of port infrastructures and operations. To give credible and stable prospects for port work is a further piece of our relaunch strategy. Strategy that it goes through a constant dialogue with all operators and the municipal administration".