An international competition of ideas to remove large ships from the historic center of Venice. The Port System Authority of the Northern Adriatic Sea (as it is now called the Provveditorato al Porto), as required by the decree of 1 April last, published this morning the call for a competition of ideas, creative proposals and technical feasibility projects and economic on the construction and management of landings for cruise ships and container ships. The condition is that the new landing point is outside the protected waters of the lagoon.
The requirements of the project
The announcement provides that proposals and projects must comply with the following requirements: guarantee the operation and safety of navigation even in adverse weather and sea conditions; guarantee sustainability from an environmental, energy and landscape point of view; provide for the way to connect landings to land interchange nodes and to the European Ten-T networks; guarantee the reception of transoceanic container services (Gateway port and transshipment) and for cruises (Home Port). The announcement also specifies that the port work must be designed and built outside the protected waters of the lagoon, meaning by this the areas outside the lagoon boundary in front of the Veneto regional coastal arch and not beyond the national territorial waters.
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The timing of the race
The international call is divided into two phases: the first, which will end by December 31st, provides for the presentation of the design proposals. At the end of this period, the Port Authority will appoint a commission composed of five experts with proven experience in transport engineering, in port works, and in general in infrastructure, transport and the transport economy, which will select the first three design proposals. for the second phase in which the technical and economic feasibility plans will have to be elaborated. The second phase will end on 31 December 2022, after which, by 30 June 2023, the commission will nominate the winning project from among the three project proposals.
Comment by Minister Giovannini
“It is a crucial step in identifying the best structural solution and avoiding damage to the city and its artistic, cultural, landscape and environmental heritage”. states in a note is the Minister of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini. “I am sure that among the solutions that will be proposed there will be the one that will best be able to reconcile the need to protect Venice and its lagoon, a unique heritage in the world, with the need not to penalize the commercial activities and tourism that feed the economy regional and national “.
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