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Municipality and Harbour Authority of Venice have agreed lines guide for the management of the crocieristico traffic
Within three months a combined appraisal of the impact of the traffic in terms of aerial emissions will be carried out, of noise, billowy motion and effect on the rivers of the channels. The objective: "emissions zero"
December 16, 2011
Municipality and Harbour Authority of Venice have agreed some lines guide for the management of the crocieristico traffic as a result of the encounter of Wednesday between mayor Giorgio Orsoni and the president of the harbour agency Paolo Costa.
In particular the two institutions have convene that "the traffic of the fleeting ships - law in a combined note - represents the last testimony to Venice of those constituent marine-harbour activities of the largeness of Most serene after the transfer of the every traffic goods in the section of Marghera of the port of Venice, process started in coherence with the national, regional and local directives programmatiche until from "Project 80" of years seventy last century" and that "the process will become rich with the displacement within 2013 of the ferries from the Marine one to the new Terminal of the Freeways of the Sea in phase of realization to Fusina". "By that date - Comune and Port Authority have explained - the Saint terminal Basilio-Marine, obtained from the patient transformation of the old port goods, with an exemplary operation of recovery of the waterfront, entirely will be dedicated to the crocieristico traffic, that it will be contained within the limits of ability defined from infrastructures already realized to San Basilio and Marittima and that they will be, from now on, only object of investments dedicated to improve of the services to sea and earth".
In this perspective the Harbour Authority has been engaged "to renounce, always from the same date, to the touched ones previewed for cruise ships near Riva Sette Martiri, modifying the protocol of understanding of the 2002 relative one to the aforesaid dock to only reserve to the yacht mooring".
In the course of the Paolo Costa encounter it has illustrated to the mayor the reasons for which the displacement of approaches crocieristici to Marghera Port confliggerebbe with the reasons of safety of navigation and of I use of the channel Malamocco-Marghera to the height of the timeliness and potentiality demanded from the traffics and next to the limits of ability also in relation to the valorization logistic-harbour of the areas of expansion under preparation (terminal ferries to Fusina, increase Pier Salts, new terminal container in Montesyndial area, etc.) and to the harbour question of the industrial activity that hopes to us it will as soon as possible replace the activities stopped of Vinyls.
Note of Authority Harbour and of Municipality evidences that Coast has convene with mayor that the crocieristiche activities, "that they constitute a vital member of the economy of the city, must however be been profitable without to produce some damage to Venice and diminishing of the eventual annoyances" and, with such objective, are established "to proceed to a combined appraisal, to conclude within three months, of the impact of the crocieristico traffic in terms of aerial emissions, of noise, billowy motion and effect on the rivers of the channels, through a combined rilettura of the scientific analyses already lead and the system of monitoring in action all to the aim to identify that, also to beyond the limits you set up from the enforced laws, points to a objective of "emissions zero". The exercise - they have explained harbour agency and municipal administration - will have to be concluded with a clear definition of the participations to lead and the behaviors to enforce, that they will go defined with the Harbour office for the competence matters".
Moreover the passage of the harbour mouth of Lido has been convene beginning right now "to agree with the Harbour office the imposition of the fuel use to lowland emission since and of rhythms of income and expenditure of the ships that limit some the impact in basin of San Marco and to proceed to more speeds up realization of "cold ironing" for the supply from earth of the electric power to the approached ships", let alone "to ask the Magistrate to Waters of Venice to elaborate a study of feasibility for the realization of an access to it approaches of Saint Basilio-Marine that reduces the necessity of passage of cruise ships in San Marco basin, also taking into consideration the proposals opportunely examined by the Municipality of Venice and the Commissioner of Government for the contrast of the billowy motion". At last it is decided "that the harbour Authority proceeds, of understanding with the Municipality of Venice, to the future location possible approaches for various ships cruises from those of Saint Basilio-Marine, in the optical not to exceed in the next few years the current number of approaches assets previewed in historical center, but to get ready to answer to the technological and organizational evolution of the type of ships".
Moreover the two agencies have agreed that, in the within of the definition of the relationships between the parts and to the aim of giving a definitive perspective to accommodation of the harbour areas, "the Harbour Authority will as soon as possible put on - through the suitable legal instruments - the areas necessary to second allow the arrival of the trolley car with S. Basilio the projects under combined elaboration; analogous it will put on the necessary areas for the realization of the new fish market to the Tronchetto". The Municipality of Venice in its turn has been engaged to put on of the Harbour Authority the areas necessary in order to realize the practicability of escape from the commercial port (via of the Industries), let alone other areas of Marghera. The Municipality and the Harbour Authority of Venice have agreed also on the definition of the harbour withins to assign to business activities and industrial to Marghera.
The note of the Municipality and the harbour authority is concluded emphasizing that the mayor has represented the necessity, and the president of the harbour agency has taken note some, "to give course in the short possible time: to the procedures for the performance of state property federalism within previewed how much to article 5 of I decree legislative 85/2010; to the redefinition of the relative relationships to the realization of the new garage".
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