{"id":10866,"date":"2015-01-27T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/01\/27\/achieving-optimal-efficiency\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:02:54","slug":"achieving-optimal-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/achieving-optimal-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving optimal efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only that but having being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/news101\/europe\/venice-terminal-masterplan\" target=\"_blank\">designed by Royal HaskoningDHV<\/a> the terminal&#8217;s performance has been optimised with a highly flexible and efficient system created in order to reduce equipment working costs by up to 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Mara Pitaccolo, assistant to the president and secretary general, Venice Port Authority, told <em>Greenport<\/em>: \u201cThe key feature of this whole system is precisely the fact that it creates a continuous conveyor belt between the offshore and onshore inland terminals and vice versa allowing the reduction of dwell time when loading\/unloading containers or transferring them to facilities inland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When completed, the offshore terminal will be able to handle 1.4m containers, whilst the onshore terminal in Porto Marghera, Montesyndial area, will handle 1.57m teu.<\/p>\n<p>A 4.2km long breakwater will shelter an oil\/LNG\/energy terminal and there will be a container terminal able to accommodate up to three latest generation container ships at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>A highly automated system will ensure loading\/unloading performances equal to those of the best worldwide terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been engineered in cooperation with robust top-of-the-list advisors including Royal HaskoningDHV, PwC, BMT Triton, Halcrow and MDS Transmodal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s due to be submitted for approval to the highest public authority by June 2015 (the C.I.P.E &#8211; Interministerial Committee for the Economic Planning, under the Presidency of the Council of the Ministers) and a PPP tender will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venice\u2019s new offshore terminal masterplan has been hailed an interesting initiative by the International Transport Forum which says it could be replicated across other ports with insufficient water depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}