The Harbour Authority of Venice meets the Venetian parliamentarians



Today the Harbour Authority of Venice has met the Venetian parliamentarians in sight of the argument to the Chamber of the reform of law 84/94, than 13th September it is approved of by the assembly of the Senate ( on 13 September 2012). The Venetian harbour agency has explained that I confront will in the next few days continue also with the objective to amend the text approved of from the Senate in order to avoid that the competitiveness comes mined, the operativity of the port of Venice, its balancing budgetary and the fleeting possibility to adapt the port to I decree Clini-Passera on March 2, 2012.

Between the points hinge of the provision that penalize the competitiveness of the harbour port of call figures - second the Harbour Authority - the technical-nautical services: it is to risk - it has explained the agency - the competitiveness between the ports of call because of the various costs that a ship has in income to the port. According to Port Authority Venetian, the current mechanism of formation of the rates does not stimulate in some way the efficiency and determines increases - also beyond 25% - of the costs which put up with from the touched user for a single one. The Harbour Authority has remembered that the port nature channel of the port of call of Venice imposes a resource many wide to the technical-nautical services and costs supported for each ship, more than 32.000 euros, is decidedly advanced regarding the other ports of Alto Adriatico and risks to push the port of Venice outside market.

An other element, that it places to risk the balancing budgetary of the agency - has found the Harbour Authority - consists in the compensation of the damages for the exposure to the asbestos: the agency must in fact be made loaded with the compensation of damages from asbestos to the people for beyond two million euro against litigations that make reference to a period in which the Provveditorato to the Port it depended directly from the ministry of Infrastructures and that - has emphasized the harbour authority - they would have therefore to today preview also the state cover of the same ones.

Moreover, second the Harbour Authority, is to risk the operativity of the port if which procedure is not integrated the current law indicating clearly and in which subject head (Marine Authority Harbour Authority, Magistrate to Waters) comes mail the responsibility of the management of the Mose system that, with all evidence, will condition the harbour activity.

At last the Harbour Authority has evidenced as the current law does not preview a norm that it allows with the Harbour Authorities to authorize taxes scope or rights of boarding/disembarkation also on the passengers (as happens instead for the goods). An economic resource - it has specified the agency - that the realization of the cold ironing, that is the electrification of the docks could be useful to for example finance investments for the mitigations of the externalities produced from the crocieristica activity () and to adapt the port to the opinions of I decree Clini-Passera.