Margera Harbor – “Molo A” and “Azoto” Gates, Venice (Italy)

Architectural project: Structura Srl
System amount: 623.607,00 €

Within the twelve infrastructure projects, which have been co-financed by the Ministry for Economic Development and the Venice Harbor Authority, aimed to rebuild the Marghera Harbor area and to expand the harbor features in its role of support to the manufacturing system and logistic area, Openprogetti grouped temporarily with others Professionals has been responsible for the construction design of technical and functional adjustments for security and traffic control of the two gates called “Molo A” and “Azoto”.

In effect, the Venice Harbor Authority has revised the traffic road maps of Marghera harbor area, forecasting some infrastructural actions, such as:

• the realization of the new gate “Azoto”, which will mainly be used for entrance of transportations heading to terminal operators;
• the rebuilding of the actual gate “Molo A”, which will mainly be used for exiting transportations coming by terminal operators;
• the installation of an automatic traffic flow detection system into the Marghera harbor area and into the terminal operators entrance roads, which will be able to detect and notify clogging situations and to provide to gate “Azoto” all necessary information in order to adjust the transportation to every terminal operators area.

The main project purposes are the following:

• to provide to gates the people identity detection devices and transit vehicles characteristics detection devices, being able to validate both identities through the actual access control system in compliance with safety policies;
• to provide a proper video surveillance system, that:
  • shall be integrated with the actual one, allowing the Control Room and GPG gate operators to manage it;
  • shall facilitate the most basic inspection activities of Guardia di Finanza;
• to ensure that Guardia di Finanza workstations will manage transit cargo information as received by National Single Window and/or harbor operators, in order to enable a faster and more efficient good transit control.