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OFFSHORE PORTS

Adriatic, a system known as the MoSe taining port security. Maritime Organization in June by Paolo

VOOPS 2020 project. Part of the MoSe project was the con- Costa, President of the Venice Port Au-

Venice Port Authority and the Venice

Construction began in 2003 and was Water Authority have adopted plans to struction of a lock at the Malamocco in- thority, Dimitris Pachakis from Royal let that was compatible with an offshore Haskoning, and Jim Knott from BMT originally scheduled to be completed not only move oil tanker traf? c out of the in 2012. After a series of controversies, lagoon, but expand the port’s container port. The advent of 16,000 to 18,000 Triton in London. Construction is set to including the arrest of the city’s mayor ship capacity and revitalize the entire TEU container vessels led authorities begin in 2016. on corruption charges associated with North Adriatic as a gateway to central to realize that they could effectively kill The project is essentially two sub- the project, MoSe is now scheduled to European markets in the process. The two birds with one stone: expand the projects: one is the construction of an be operational in 2016. Isolating the city VOOPS might not just change the Port port’s capacity and eliminate tanker traf- energy terminal, the other a container from the ocean might be the way to save of Venice when it begins operations in ? c in the lagoon. They could accomplish terminal. Both will be protected by the the city from rising tides and increas- 2020, it could also serve as a model for this by building an offshore port capable same 4.2km long breakwater and will be of handling both oil shipments and the built eight nautical miles offshore where ingly tempestuous weather, but it would ports worldwide struggling with accom- berthing of ULCVs. The project was the ocean depth is 20 meters. The con- hardly help the local economy and the modating massive container ships, pro-

Port of Venice. formally presented to the International tainer terminal will eventually be able to tecting local environments, and main-

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