Realistic, bizarre and fantastic hypotheses for the landing place of the cruise ships to Venice



Sometimes the declarations of the exponents of the new guided Italian government by Mario Monti and of the same prime Minister, in charge from 16th November, seem imprinted to the precaution sometimes from the exact contrary, almost were inspired by the precipitation of the moment. It will be the anxiety to speed up well and. This is however the mission that is entrusted to the new executive from the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano: to give again credibility to the solvency quickly financial institution of Italy and to reassure the markets.

It is too soon in order to say if this objective is achieved. Certainly it is that the competences of a government go very beyond this limited though challenging assignment. Outside from this railroad ministers and Prime Minister they seem to they comfort less, as when friday the new minister of the economic Development, Infrastructures and the Transports, Corrado Passera, has chargeed the traffic hemorrhage that is characterizing the Italian ports of call of transhipment of Southern Italy to insufficient the bravura one of our ports ( on 9 December 2011), demonstrating - as it is logical - to probably know little of the argument and of being completely in the dark of the impact of the competition operated from the new ports of the North African coast on the Italian portualità that takes care of transhipment, more exposed to the rigors of the globalization.

Analogous the spaesamento of the new minister to the Atmosphere, Corrado Clini appears us, when it has proposed to make to land the cruise ships directed to Venice to an offshore terminal, similarly to planned how much for the container vessels and the oil tankers, receiving so a hypothesis who circulates for a long time and that it has been recently resumption from the municipal administration and same the first citizen Giorgio Orsoni, that but has assumed to transfer the cruise ships to Marghera, remaining inside of the lagoon.

If to we inforMARE the choice to make to land full hand container and tankers to a terminal place to 14 kilometers from the coast it seems I yield of a difficult one and precarious compromise between the requirements to guarantee the ecosystem of the lagoon and the maintenance of the competitiveness of the Venetian port, the proposal to transfer to the offshore terminal also the landings place of the cruise ships appears to us impassable and foolish. One of the crocieristiche destinations outside is the concrete risk to place market more important of the world.

To reassure the crocieristiche companies, evidently and verosimilmente dumbfound from a similar hypothesis, a note of the Harbour Authority of Venice reaches in which it is emphasized that, "for the tranquillity of regional, national and international the companies of navigation crocieristiche that scale Venice and of the other local operators, cointeressati to the marine traffic fleeting worried for sure news appeared recently on it prints, the Harbour Authority of Venice restates of being engaged in the full valorization of the crocieristico terminal of Marine Venice obtained from the patient transformation of the old port goods today integrally transferred to Marghera". "Valorization of the terminal of Marine - the harbour agency specifies - that it comprises "the green" strategy to consider defined the expansion of approaches in Marine and heading for the mitigation, until the elimination, of the residual aerial pollution, the billowy motion, the acoustic pollution, etc."

"The Harbour Authority - the note continues - is naturally careful to every suggestion, if above all coming from the Municipality of Venice with which it shares every town-planning power for the territory of competence action to improve the service and to define future zones eventual expansion of crocieristici terminals, on which this Harbour Authority will advance its proposals shortly, that it excludes however the possibility to dedicate harbour areas of Marghera for this purpose, being the impossibility of sharing of access the Lagunari channels, today totally absorbed from the traffic goods fortunately in increase".

"On these topics - the agency concludes - the president of the Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, will in the next few days meet mayor Giorgio Orsoni sure to find the solution that he guarantees the child - the cruise ships to Venice - throwing the dirty water of the annoyances that the crocieristica brings to Venice even if against great advantages".

Bruno Bellio