Clini: I will propose to the cruise companies an agreement in order to manage the routes in sustainable way in the zones of environmental interest



The tragic shipwreck of Costa Concordia to Isola del Giglio, that he has caused the dead women of six people (while the number of the missing persons gone up - second the last declarations - to 29 is still uncertain), has provoked a series of reactions on the opportunity or less than to carry the great cruise ships in sensitive areas from the environmental safety or point of view.

The president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia, Pasqualino Monti, has evidenced that "the cruise remains a sure vacation". "In this so tragic moment - it has asserted - he is not simple to say it, but I am convinced that the cruise is and remains a form of sure vacation". Monti has emphasized that the port of Civitavecchia, first in the Mediterranean for number of the passengers, lines up itself to defense of the crocieristico market, and especially of the "many men and women whom every day the best gives in order to guarantee to million tourists only producing for characteristics, relationship quality-marks, mix unrepeatable of tradition and innovation".

Taking part to wireless transmission "Nine o'clock" of Oscar Giannino, in joining to mourning and the worry for the absurd tragedy of Costa Concordia, Monti has announced the release of a project for a long time to the examination of the Harbour Authority for the realization to July to Rome and Civitavecchia of a great international event in a position to igniting positively the reflectors on the market of the cruises.

"The port of Civitavecchia, own for its role leader in the Mediterranean - it has found Monti - is second we called to a function original, of traffic capital, but also completely not only central of spread of a culture of compatible tourism in the Mediterranean, that it has those characteristics of safety, but also of full understanding of only an historical and artistic potentiality in the world that must find expression in the routes of the ships".

The president of the harbour agency of Civitavecchia has explained that the event in program for the July beginning will have own this motivation, "reaffirming meanwhile - he has added - the role leader who Italy has conquered and has all the right to defend" in the affirmation of tourism on the sea.

"From 2000 today - Monti has remembered - in the single port of Civitavecchia they are journeyed beyond 15 million crocieristi, in maximum safety and tranquillity, is down that on board. The tragedy of the Lily is a isolated fact, depended, second how much is emerging, from single decisions and behaviors outside every logic and procedure that nothing they have to that seeing with the cruise as such or safety of the ship. For this we hope that the impact is limited negative on a so important field for Italy, in which the Country makes to record stung of long excellence all the row".

The minister of the Atmosphere, Corrado Clini, than yesterday has gone yesterday on the place of the shipwreck also for a summit to the prefecture of Livorno in order to make the point on the environmental risks, has announced that, in order to avoid that disasters as that happened saturday to Isola del Giglio can be repeated, "in the next hours, on the base of the existing norms and on the base of the appraisals that we will collect, we will have sure to put in existence a prevention measure".

With respect to the situation of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, the minister has explained that the state of emergency will be declared "in order to allow and to put into effect the necessary measures in fast times, that is correspondents to the challenge to avoid the dispersion in sea of beyond 2.000 which stowed tons of fuel in the tanks". "We need - it has added - to proceed with urgency, in times more breviums than those allowed from the ordinary procedures. We have asked the company for giving us within tomorrow the work programme in order to empty the tanks and within 10 days that in order to remove the ship".

Clini has confirmed that there is the possibility of skidding of the ship towards a deeper backdrop. In this case - it has asserted - the percorribile hypothesis would be "to plug up the created leak and to carry the ship online of water line. This would allow to drag the ship far from the point in which it is found now, in order to operate. But at the moment we are able to not to say if this option is practicable". The minister has observed that if the ship slipped more to bottom unfortunately the participations still more would be complicated: "if he slipped without breaches - he has specified - could itself equally be operated for the recovery fuel without the danger of environmental disaster. But the risk is that slipping us they can be of the breaches of the hull and of the tanks and then the situation would be truly difficult". Clini has found that to leave the ship on the seabed it could be another hypothesis but - has restated - "we are in a situation in which there are various scenes. We are not in condition for saying which he is that most probable one".

Between the prevention measures that the government intends to assume in order to avoid that other disasters as that of Costa Concordia happen, the minister has anticipated that he will propose to the cruise companies "an agreement, a work programme and of behaviors and management of the routes so as to manage them in sustainable way in the zones of environmental interest". With the Tuscany Region - Clini has explained - "we have already convene that the national institutions estimate with the possible procedures to existing legislation for ordering the marine traffic in front of the coasts of the Tuscany. To enforced legislation it wants to say using procedures that they allow their immediate application".

Moreover Clini has newly place the attention on the opportunity to make to arrive the great cruise ships in the heart of the lagoon of Venice. The minister has announced that, in order to avoid that these ships continue to arrive until the San Marco basin, he has already spoken with the mayor and the president about the Harbour Authority about Venice: "we are working - it has asserted - draft of an administrative provision. I hope just that not there are difficulty. The problem is not to make to arrive the ships to Venice - it has specified - but not to make them to arrive in the San Marco basin".

Of the same warning the president of the Region of Veneto, Luca Zaia: "I say from times not suspiciones to it: the transit of the great ships, real floating apartment houses, to Venice and in the basin of San Marco - it has agreed the governor - is a problem that goes faced, because our first obligation is that to safeguard integrity of an only city to the world and the life of the people".

In the margin of the audition of a delegation of 13° the permanent Commission of the Senate in matter of reform of the special law for Venice, held yesterday in Prefecture, Zaia it has specified that the intention is not sure that to boycott the crocieristica: "but that it is necessary a reflection, characterizing and estimating logistic solutions alternatives - it has explained - are beyond question".

"Certainly - it has concluded the president of the regional agency - these ships to Venice are towed and therefore in some way controlled, but the danger is all".