Off-Shore Multimodal Terminal in Venice

The VOOPS, Venice Onshore Offshore Port System, consists of an integrated multi modal infrastructure for transoceanic vessels, located close by the Venice lagoon, and aimed at reestablishing the old ‘silk route’. Positioned 8 miles offshore, where the sea bottom is at least 20 meters deep, the offshore platform will be protected by a 4.0 km long breakwater dam which will shelter an oil terminal and a container terminal able to accommodate up to three latest generation container ships at the
same time. The offshore terminal off the Port of Venice will berth larger ships and will bring both economic and environmental benefits.

In order to preserve the aforementioned conditions, the infrastructure adopted separated hydraulic networks for storm and industrial sewers. The collected contributes are subject to specific treatment procedures, purified, and spread into the sea. Both biological and pollution related parameters are monitored so as to reduce the effective impact on the system.