The Port is envisaged as being a “green” port, based on urban climate, urban water management and sustainable energy infrastructure solutions. Along with improving traffic flow in the Port, because of the planned level-separation of railway and road traffic and the joining of port terminals into comprehensive spatial units, certain other measures are needed, such as green system planning. The extensive roof vegetation on top of the warehouses improves heat insulation, decreases rainwater drainage and appears as a green wave. The image of the green moving landscape is augmented by the roofs of 60 hectares of garages, with a 108,000-car capacity, where vineyards are arranged. The garages border the water courses of the River Rižana and the Ankaran Border Canal (ABC), between which a new water connection will be established; a widening of the Rižana bed is also foreseen at the juncture, while the inflow of the Rižana into the ABC will be regulated. The ABC area is characterised by vast reedbeds, approximately 2.7 km long and 70 m wide, and two relatively large wetlands, while the canal itself has been deepened to convey sea water to the area of the Ankaran Bonifika. The two 20-metre high landscaped knolls follow the shape of the terrain with its terraces and blend into the surrounding vineyards. From the garage roofs, the vineyard terraces descend towards the canal. Given the spatial nature of the area, the most rational use of the terraces is agricultural – vineyards – always taking into consideration that, in this way, effective long-term maintenance of the vast space above the garages will be ensured. In places, fruit trees and/or other indigenous trees could be planted, particularly at the edges, turning points and other suitable locations where they do not interfere with the technology of machine processing and will greatly contribute to the biodiversity and landscape of the area. And, as the city is not only an economic entity, but also a community, cultivation of these vineyards could be undertaken by retired port workers, who in this way still retain a connection to their former employer. Cultivated terraces with indigenous wild trees and olive groves also conclude the northern part of the ABC corridor towards the sports and recreational park, and thus form a kind of buffer zone between the sports park and the substitute habitat area (reeds and bushes). This land use also supports recreational use, creates a pleasant landscape for the border space, provides relatively well-maintained buffer zones, and ensures quality of life in the immediate vicinity of the Port. Further integration of the Port and Ankaran is achieved through the construction of a new marina, sport and recreational facilities, channels and salt marshes next to the technological heritage area, the old pump, and the industrial museum park. The landscape and areas of historical importance surrounding the Port of Koper require the implementation of more special protection measures. A green barrier - 12 metres high and 1.5 kilometres long - separates a new container terminal from the settlement of Ankaran. For better sound absorption, it is divided into shorter parts, and it is also equipped with a photovoltaic system on the south side. On the north side, the wall gives an impression of a natural free-growing hedge, primarily because of the use of varied vegetation. The Port’s green system also envisages design and operation of a museum-industrial park combining elements of technical heritage and the cultural landscape at the edges of the Škocjanski zatok nature reserve. This establishes conditions for additional protection of the nature reserve, programme connections with the reserve (visits and education), and an exhibition of various industrial and port devices (lifts, machines, etc.), providing explanations on the development of the Port, the old city centre of Koper and Bonifika. Koper’s old city centre is situated 15 metres above the harbour. Here, the view of the top of the Port’s warehouses is particularly important and the Port roofs become the “fifth façade”. Even more important is the pleasant landscape view of the green Port from the neighbouring hills rising above the port, which at the moment comprises the roofs of the warehoused cars. This is one of the reasons for installing photovoltaic cells on the roofs of the existing and newly erected warehouses at the northern end of the first pier and on the second pier, which are furthest from Koper, Ankaran and landscape areas. The project foresees a fifteen-fold increase in roof surfaces intended for photovoltaic cells on the existing planned level. The system of surfaces intended for energy self-sufficiency of the Port substitutes for the public-tender outline foreseen energy park at the entrance to the port, which would also have an educational character. At present, the Port is closed off from the rest of the city. Other parts of the city are segregated in a similar fashion. To connect separated parts of the city, a walking and cycling path is foreseen, running along and through the Port, beginning at the passenger terminal in the north of the old Koper city centre and ending at the lighthouse at the extreme end of the third pier, measuring in all slightly less than seven kilometres. The planned path could be incorporated into the existing network of walking and cycling paths and networks under construction; in planning this, the completed projects have been taken into consideration.