To prevent the ouster of the crocieristico traffic from the docks of the historical center of Venice



To prevent the ouster of the crocieristico traffic from the docks of the Marine one in the historical center of Venice. The necessity evidenced in the course of interclub organized from the International Propeller Cub Port of Venice and from the Venice Passenger terminal (VTP) with the Lions of the province of Venice is that has held yesterday in the VTP center.

"The problem is not "cruises or cruises not" to Venice - it has found the president of Propeller, Massimo Bernardo, emphasizing the topic of the encounter: "Cruising: ‘Core business’ of the Venetian marine economy" - but rather - has wondered - "which Venice in order to manage the marine economy and its crocieristico traffic, in order to save - in so a serious moment for economic crisis - the many places of work between directed and induced generated from this section"

"The true objective, when other ports to near we make contest in order to steal this precious traffic to us - Bernardo has said - are that to characterize new distances in order to integrate more and more the port to the city creating as today do not happen "a island in the island", but a "inseparable unicum" that it represents the true point of force for the development of that economy of the sea that they always give, between lights and shadows, lodge in the DNA of our city and its people".

The managing director of the Venice Passenger terminal, Roberto Perocchio, has remembered the conspicuous investments for the realization of the new structures of Marine and the engagement in order to return the mooring of the great ships with the new system of supplying more and more ecosostenibile electrical worker from dock (cold ironing).

The head operating unit of the Harbour office of Venice, Claudio Mollica, has illustrated the new decrees for the control activity on the transit of the ships in San Marco Basin as a result of the decisions gushed, after the incident of Costa Concordia, from ministers for infrastructure Passera and that of the Clini Atmosphere, besides that which he regards the controls on fuels to low environmental impact prescribed for navigation and the mooring in the Lagunari waters. In its participation the spokesman of the Harbour Authority, Stefano Nava, in representation of president Paolo Costa engaged abroad, has indicated the "routes" pursued by the agency that steers the development of the port, progettuali hypotheses this hour to the attention of the competent public bodies.

President of the International Propeller Club of Monfalcone, Paolo Maschio, managing of the Fincantieri group, has exposed a wide analysis of the world-wide market of the field of the constructions of ships from cruises and has remembered virtues and problems of the Italian shipbuilding industry in the light of a more and more trained competition of the Asian countries. Also the Industrial director of the Association of Venice, Nelson Persello, has evidenced how much is important the relationship between the Venetian productive world and the development of the crocieristico traffic, above all in relation to the realization of the new structures for the boarding and disembarkation of the passengers supplied to the Venetian terminal and today exported in others important European ports.

President of the cultural association "Ponti on the seas", Iva Scarpa, has stopped himself on the importance of "transit cruising" for the city economy wondering which it is the incidence of the crocieristico traffic for the city truth. He is found that "transit cruising", coordinated from only a governance, it remains - also for its numbers - the more important vehicle for the city and the companies of navigation for giving an added value to the cruise, so that the Venetian terminal does not come exclusively used which arrival or departure port, but which vehicle for giving to the tourists how much the city and its lagoon from always know to offer.

On behalf of all the Lions invited to the meeting the president of Giovanni Barnaba zone have expressed the maximum appreciation for the congressional initiative having assured the engagement of the clubs in order to introduce the economic and cultural fallen back important that the crocieristico traffic generates in the Venetian area.