Today the Management Committee of the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea has resolved unanimously the granting of a new concession to the Terminal Rifuse Venezia (TRV) company of the Belgian group Euroports. The concession concerns a state-owned compendium of 278,500 square meters at Pier B of the Commercial Port of Marghera inclusive of areas, buildings and quays and has as its object the performance of loading, unloading, transshipment, storage and handling operations of bulk goods, including agricultural products, minerals, bulk steel industry, as well as all operations related to the management of port companies on behalf of third parties.

For the concession, with a duration of 25 years, starting from October 2025, an annual fee of 3.163 million euros. This fee will be integrated into recognition of the use of state-owned facilities under state concession network and rail infrastructure that will be the subject of investments by of the concessionaire, insisting on state-owned land, and will be determined on the basis of the tariff and regulatory criteria in force.

The terminal company, which will undertake to provide for the ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the assets in concession, plans to achieve, at the end of the concession, traffic volume of 3,568,000 tons and to invest a total of over 53 million euros with the aim of increase storage capacity, enhance railway infrastructures and the handling systems of the Implement technologies to reduce the impact of the increase the digitalisation of processes and the safety. In line with the development strategy of the Port Authority, moreover, TRV has planned to increase the use of the railway with the aim of bringing the share of goods transported by train to 30% of total traffic.

"We are satisfied - commented the president of the Port Authority, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio - and Euroports, port operator of international importance present in ten countries and which moves 70 million tons of goods per year in the world, continue to recognize the centrality of the port of Venice and to invest in on their future in Porto Marghera, bringing employment, innovation, digitalisation and environmental protection, themes that will play an increasingly central role."