Today in Porto Marghera the new underground pipeline for the transport of vegetable oils that puts in place direct connection to the production plant in via Banchina Molini di Cereal Docks, where the product is unloaded from the ship, and the coastal depot in via Righi, where the park is located storage tanks.

The work, which is part of the Authority's Three-Year Operational Plan of the Port System of the Northern Adriatic Sea, is the result of an investment worth a total of five million of euros and consists of an underground pipeline at 50 meters of depth which is 3.1 kilometers long, of which 2.7 made with TOC (Horizontal Drilling) technology Controlled), and is capable of transferring up to 300 meters cubes per hour of vegetable oils between the two sites. This is the TOC longest single-route in Italy and one of the main European achievements of its kind, a strategic infrastructure for the logistics modernization of the Cereal Docks group under the banner the reduction of the environmental impact of transport.

The new pipeline overcomes a historical logistical criticality: the impossibility for the coastal depot to receive ships at due to the insufficient seabed, which for years had imposed the transfer by road of the oils landed at Banchina Molini. The new link eliminates this step, reduces traffic in the industrial area, increases safety and makes it easier to efficient and sustainable management of landing operations and storage. The long-awaited completion of the excavation of the Canal Industrial West could allow, in the future, access to ships of larger tonnage, completing the framework of investments infrastructure and further strengthening the strategic role of the port of Venice in the production chain of Cereal Docks.

The construction of the pipeline required a major engineering work: the pipeline, buried 50 meters above sea level, depth, crosses more than twenty properties and three canals of the Venetian Lagoon. The work was made with the "Meeting in the Middle" technique, which saw two construction sites work in parallel until they joined in a single continuous section, equipped with relay stations of the pressure and Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) systems for cleaning and internal inspections.

"From 2011 to today - recalled the president of Cereal Docks Group, Mauro Fanin - the Marghera plant has Processed nearly 10 million tons of raw materials plants, accounting for about 50% of the traffic linked to agribusiness. Continuous investments for the revamping of the plant, but also for energy efficiency and Logistics are tangible proof of our commitment. Cereal Docks has always recognized the strategic role of the port of Venice and also this new investment - which does not generate a direct economic return, but has a strong environmental value, logistics and infrastructure - goes in this direction. The goal that we have set ourselves in the business plan to 2028 is to increase the volumes of the Marghera plant by 50%, reaching one million and a half tons processed per year; To do so, however, they are adequate infrastructures are needed, first and foremost the interventions to the excavation of canals that allow the passage of larger ships tonnage for the supply of raw material".

With regard to the nautical accessibility of the port of Venice, and in particular of Porto Marghera, the president of the Port Authority, Matteo Gasparato, highlighted that it is "a essential condition to ensure safety of the navigation, business continuity and full development of our port system. In this context - he underlined - the opinion expressed by the National EIA Commission on the new website for the planting of sediments south of the Isola delle Tresse represents a decisive step: without a structural solution and for sediment management is not it is possible to ensure constant and effective maintenance dredging. We are talking about a strategic project of 82 million euros, extended over 46 hectares, with a transfer capacity of 6.8 million cubic meters and an operational horizon of at least fifteen years, which will allow to give certainty to the essential interventions to Porto Marghera. Alongside this - added Gasparato - is it is essential to proceed with the maintenance excavation of the port canals, starting from the West Canal, and with the interventions on the Canal Malamocco-Marghera, which is the main access axis at the industrial yard. Nautical accessibility is not An abstract theme, but a concrete lever of competitiveness: it means allowing ships to enter and exit safely, reduce risks, increase port reliability and make the most of existing infrastructure. It is on these works, which have already largely begun or are in the process of being environmental assessment, which plays a fundamental part of the future of Porto Marghera and its ability to continue to to be an industrial and logistics hub of reference for the country".