The Management Committee of the Port System Authority of the Northern Adriatic Sea has adopted the Document of Strategic System Planning (DPSS), a tool - whose final approval is up to the Ministry of Infrastructure and of Transport after agreement with the Region and only once having acquired the opinions of the Municipalities concerned - which has been introduced by the reform of Law No 84/1994 and intended to represent the strategic reference framework for the development of of the commercial ports of the territory in the coming decades.

For Venice historic center, the strategy outlined in the DPSS reinforces its vocation as a port dedicated to small cruises and yachting, enhancing the historical and cultural relationship between the city and water. For the areas of Marghera, the document confirms and consolidates the commercial, logistical and industrial area of the settlement, as well as the cruise function provided for by Decree-Law no. 103/2021, reaffirming the inseparable relationship between canals, docks, squares and the lagoon context.

For Chioggia, the DPSS identifies a development model based on on the functional specialization of port areas: Isola dei Saloni will be mainly oriented to the activities passengers, tourist and pleasure boats, while Val da Rio will consolidate its commercial and fishing role. The strategy also looks at the inclusion of Porto Levante and Porto Pila within the port system, enhancing its respectively the energy, commercial, yachting functions and related to fishing.

In the short term, the Port System Authority aims the consolidation of existing activities to ensure supply to the North-East and support competitiveness of the regional production system. Priority interventions will concern the improvement of the nautical accessibility of Venice and Chioggia canals, the strengthening of connections last-mile rail and road transport, the enhancement of the port and hinterland spaces also through the Logistics Zone The completion of the new cruise structure is simplified.

In the medium term, the strategy provides for the strengthening of intermodality and accessibility of the system with particular attention to the development of the logistics of Montesyndial, a strategic area of about 90 hectares destined to become one of the main intermodal hubs in the Mediterranean. In parallel, the DPSS promotes the implementation of new multimodal connections between the port and the main national railway and motorway routes, as well as the energy conversion of industrial and port infrastructures towards new energy carriers from renewable sources, with particular emphasis on reference to hydrogen.

In the long term, the document deals with the the theme of the limits of lagoon nautical accessibility and of the restrictions imposed by environmental protection and the MOSE. In this perspective, the DPSS identifies the need to develop new offshore terminals along the Veneto coast, in capable of accommodating large container and cruise ships, thus ensuring that the port system can maintain its international competitiveness even with respect to the evolution of global shipping.

We remind you that the project for the construction of new terminals offshore outside the Venice Lagoon has ancient roots that date back to 2010 when the first proposal was presented project, which was subsequently updated to modified up to the point of more recently hypothesizing the construction of "docking points", perhaps more essentials, outside the Lagoon ( of 2 March and 23 September 2010, 29 June 2021 and 5 November 2025).