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accommodate three ULCVs simultaneously.
(Currently, the Port of Venice has
12m sea beds only capable of handling
vessels of up to 7,000 TEUs in size).
Building two terminals eight miles into
the ocean is certainly its own technical
challenge, but it is the method that Royal
Haskoning DHV devised to transport
cargo containers that makes the project
truly innovative.
Venice Port Authority calls the system
a continuous conveyor belt, one that will
transfer cargo from the offshore terminal
to Porto Marghera and Porto Chioggia,
The advent of 16,000 to 18,000 TEU container
vessels led authorities to realize that
they could effectively kill two birds with
one stone: expand the port’s capacity and
eliminate tanker traffic in the lagoon.
which are inside the Venice Lagoon, as
well as Porto Levante and inland river
ports. The first part of the system is the
container terminal, which will have a
berth length of 1000 meters and a berth
depth of 20 meters (a size large enough
to ensure that even if the explosion in
container vessel size continues, the Port
of Venice will still be able to accommodate
the world’s largest ships).
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The terminal is projected to move 1 to
1.3 million TEUs per year when opera-
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