This morning, with the transit of a large barge in fifth European class that transported granaglie, is inaugurated the new navigation locks of Cavanella d'Adige, that they make to become European in all respects idrovia the Fissero - Tartar - Canal Bianco who connects the Adriatic with the heart of the Po plain. The conca it is a work that affords to the boats "to cross" a crossing between two water course that they have different levels. In this house draft of the Adige and the Pò-Brondolo channel that the lagoon connects, and therefore the ports of Venice and Chioggia, with the Pò but above all with the idrovia for Mantua. The conca it is a bathtub kind that receives the ship or the barge that must journey, is shut and its level is given a ride to or to come down until to carry means online with the water mirror to exceed; to this point it is opened, the ship journeys and it is introduced in second conca, an analogous one to the first, from which then it approaches the water way beyond the crossing.

the new conche of Cavanella d'Adige intentional and are financed by the Region of Veneto to completion of idrovia the Mantua-Venice and whose East-West axis (Fissero - Tartar - Canalbianco) almost was completely adapted adapted to the fifth class in 2002. Of the realization of the conche it is charged the society Territorial Systems Spa, entirely participated from the E region operating arm in the field of the transport and navigation.

"Infrastructures as this - it has evidenced the regional city council member to the policies of mobility of Veneto, Renato Chisso - in concrete terms affords to eliminate per year from the freeways approximately six thousand Tir, that they could easy become 10 thousand if this form of transport were known. The conche they in fact complete in fact the only great line of internal watery transport of Italy, doubling its ability in terms of tonnage of means of navigation and proposing itself like only alternative to the road, integrating realizes to the complementary railroad and to the marine cabotage and the freeways of the sea, inside an intermodal row of which it has been preached for decades without to realize big thing".

the fluvial means or fluvio - marine of fifth class CEMT (EU commission Ministries of Transportation) - has remembered the Venetian regional agency - they are motor-ships and barges of the maximum length from 95 to 110 meters, the maximum width of 11,4 meters, displacement from 1.500 to 3.000 tons (from 1.600 to 3.000 tons for the convoys to thrust). The cargo is equivalent about fifty to approximately that Tir, that they come so removed from the roads.

In 2012 along the Idrovia Venice - Mantua 289,456 tons in 2011 are transported altogether 164,882 tons of goods (), for a total value of 142,9 million euros (313,0 million in 2011), which floating ones from diporto (16,945 in 2011 join 15,113) and 3,262 passengers (10,952 in 2011). The Venetian regional agency has found that the trend of the transport of the goods on the internal water way unfortunately in has been descendant of 2008, year of beginning of world-wide the economic crisis, but that - in any case - the data above all evidence the convenience of this modality of transport for goods like granaglie, timber, coal and hydrocarbons, chemicals and plastics and metals. Moreover - it has emphasized the Region - the start of the offshore port of Venice, the platform harbour that the Harbour Authority of the Venetian port of call has planned to realize to out of the Lagoon, will be sure reason of impulse for the inland navigation, in reason of the possibility of connection directed between ships globetrotter and home markets of the Po plain.

the Region of Veneto has traced an historical picture of the Italian inland navigation: "the most efficient net in Veneto of the Most serene one - it has remembered the agency - even connected almost all the chief towns (Belluno in Venice direction, above all for the timber transport) and the water ways were used in all the Po plain, allowing to arrive until Milan and Turin. Railroad and internal-combustion engine but have substantially emptied the system even if, in the past century were planned a large one idrovia, to north of the Pò and parallel to this last one, that the transit of goods allowed on fluvial ships from the sea with Mantua and Cremona in every period of the year, independently from the situations of flood or lean of the Pò and the bisse of its ground. The first plan of the idrovia goes back to 1938 (hence the original name of Mussolini Channel), when to the purpose of hydraulic accommodation of the system of Fissero channels - Tartar - Canalbianco came exactly added those irrigated and those of inland navigation. The war events and successive the preponderant weight given to the transport on dismal rubber the channel in a limbo kind, from which it above all exited graces to investments of the Region of Veneto for approximately 70 million euros carried out in last the 15 years of the slid century, that they have afforded of ricalibrare the system and the works of navigation necessary in order to exceed the unevenness of 12,50 meters between the sea and the mantovano. The idrovia, until then the incomplete one more extraordinarily dated of Italy - it has still remembered the agency - came finally inaugurated in the spring-summer of 2002 with the opening to the traffic for all the 130 kilometers that go from the sea to lakes of Mantua. In order to return them completely navigable from floating of fifth European class the new lacked exactly conche, realized graces to an ulterior supported regional financing from communitarian contribution. The idrovia today it is equipped of the following ports/docks: Mantua, Ostiglia, Candy, Rovigo. To Rovigo it is working a interporto directly served also from the railroad" .