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Sustaining major infrastructures

Civitavecchia
Seaport

ITALY

Pontile 3 -
Fosso di Bonaugurio
in Seaport

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THE PROJECT

The construction of the Strategic Works has provided a growth of maritime trades, an improvement of mooring and berthing services, and an increasing offer of mooring length. As a consequence, the Port of Civitavecchia can undertake the role of harbor hub of the Tirrenian Sea. The so called “1st functional lot” consists in the following main works etension of the Cristoforo Colombo breakwater for 413 m in order to shelter the Ferry asin from the incident wave action construction of the Service asin construction of the Ferry asin with perpendicular piers.
The etension of the C. Colombo breakwater and the basin berths were constructed using cellular caissons. In order to reduce the residual wave agitation in the protected basin and to improve the efficiency of loading and unloading activities at berth, the inner caissons have been designed with wave energy absorbing chambers consisting in perforated concrete sea walls. In the Service asin, innovative caissons were placed, called REEC REsonant ave Energy Converter, to produce energy from incident waves using turbines. REEC belongs to the more common family of Oscillating ater Colums OC devices. Smaller cellular caissons have been placed in the Ferry asin to construct an open pier 243 m long for ferry ships.


SOMMA supplied 110 elastomeric bearing serie ESAFLON, 262 elastomeric restraint serie ELB e 430 m of expansion joint serie SM.

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