The company Adriatic marinas-Porto Montenegro from Tivat intends to reconstruct the wharf for supplying fuel to yachts and increase its capacity four times compared to the current state.
In this regard, Porto Montenegro submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro for approval of the environmental impact assessment study for the reconstruction of the PN jetty, and this study, which was done by the company LTC Consulting from Kotor, was put up for public discussion, while the central public hearing on that document will be held on November 11 at 10 a.m. in the administrative building of Porto Montenegro
Jetty PN, where the station for fueling ships in Porto Montenegro marina was built, was built in 2013 as an extension of the new pier V, the largest marina in this part of the world. The building measures 83 by 16 meters and consists of a reinforced concrete wharf supported by large steel piles driven into the seabed. On this wharf there is a smaller building for the accommodation of the services that manage and manage the process of bunkering ships, as well as a total of five devices for dispensing diesel fuel and gasoline. The fuel that is supplied to yachts and smaller vessels on this connection, through a pipeline that stretches along the pier 3 of the marina, comes from eight underground tanks with a total capacity of 800 cubic meters, which are located on the coast of Porto Montenegro, north of the Lido Mar pool facility. Since the construction of the new ultra-luxury wing of the Porto Montenegro settlement, which is now named Synchro in the conceptual concepts, will begin in that area in a couple of years, the underground tanks should be moved and the issue of fuel storage should be solved in a different way.
In this regard, Porto Montenegro intends to reconstruct the PN pier so that a floating storage for diesel fuel and gasoline (barge) is permanently moored on its eastern part. The barge will be connected to the eastern (inner) side of the pier via three guide rails. She is 70,2 meters long, 16,4 meters wide and 5,3 meters high, and her draft is 3,5 meters. This steel vessel without its own propulsion has double plating which is mandatory for all vessels intended for the transport and storage of fuel and oily liquids. The barge can hold a total of 3,274 cubic meters of fuel in its eight tanks - gasoline and diesel, of which some tanks are intended for duty-free fuel, while others are intended for duty-duty fuel. On the right side of the barge, there will be devices for pumping fuel into smaller vessels, while the barge itself is equipped with a crane, hoses, drainage, a water cooling system, an automatic vessel ballasting system, sensors and an alarm system that enable safe fuel transfer and transfer operations. . The barge will have a total of four tanks for ballast water.
Instead of tanker trucks, as is the case now, the reconstructed yacht bunkering station in Porto Montenegro will in the future be filled with fuel by sea - directly. From the tanker that will occasionally sail here and transfer fuel to the barge permanently fixed on the eastern part of the pier Pn. It is planned that the operation of transshipment of the entire amount of fuel that the barge can receive from the tanker will last a maximum of six hours. It is also planned to install new working floating pontoons on the eastern side of the barge, where yachts up to 40 meters in length and smaller vessels that will be supplied with fuel from this installation will dock. Larger superyachts will continue to take on fuel by mooring directly at Pn Pier, on its western side. The entire plant of the vessel bunkering station in Porto Montenegro is surrounded by floating fixed and mobile dams on the surface of the sea, in order to prevent the spread of possible spills of fuel and oily liquids into the sea to a wider water area.
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