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Design targets:

  1. to guarantee a sufficient length of the East quay in order to contain two vessels, among them one Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV) with a capacity of 20.000 TEUs to be docked frontally;
  2. to realize railways in order to assure operability to the Ship to Shore (STS) crane equipped with a new boom fit to reach 24 rows.

What above imply new design of elastic fender systems which enable to transfer approach energy to the structures and bitts design estimating wind speed of 27 m/s (52,484 knots).

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