Manifestation in order to restate the importance of the cruises for Venice



Today, in occasion of the arrival to Venice of the cruise ship Carniva Legend of the Carnival Cruise Lines that sanctions the opening of the new crocieristica season in lagoon, the Committee Cruise Venice, association that promotes and stimulates the traffic of the cruises in the Venetian port of call, has organized a manifestation in order to evidence as that of the cruises is an economic section that to Venice it means beyond directed 5.500 places of job with annual a direct expense that exceeds 180 million euros. To the encounter they have participated a representation of the economic categories engaged in this productive segment, from the luggage carriers to the ormeggiatori, the attache's to the vigilance to the tourist operators, than in festoso way they have intentional to restate to the public opinion the importance, often underrated of an excellence of the local economy: Venice is in fact the first home port (port of boarding and disembarkation) European.

"The moment of acceptance to the organized Legend from CruiseVenice in occasion of the opening of the crocieristica season - it has emphasized the president of the association, Massimo Bernardo - has intentional to throw again with all the force of how many they are engaged as working entrepreneurs and to support the strategic role that shipping and in particular the crocieristica represents for the city economy. It has been the umpteenth invitation to the most prestigious companies than navigation that they land to Venice because they do not divert their bows on concurrent ports, when to enjoy the direct and induced benefits of this traffic they are innkeepers, restaurateurs, marine taxi drivers, traders, agencies, shipment enterprises, the nautical services technical etc, not to mention the airport and of all those services dedicated to feeding the crocieristici flows of the more important home port of the Mediterranean. "Welcome Cruising" - Bernardo has explained - is the emblematic business card of that which our salute wants to continue to being the first city between the most prestigious goals of world-wide crocieristico tourism" ", second a custom fashionable to Venice from some time over the last - it has specified Bernardo - has been bothered by sparuto a group of protesters. But these forms of dissent, in a single direction, have not ruined this moment of festivity of the crocieristica in lagoon".

"I consider that the section of the crocieristica - it has declared in the course of the Ernesto Pancin manifestation, AEPE director (Association Shopkeepers Publics Exercises of Venice) - is of great importance for the Venetian economy, an authentic feather in the cap, to defend and to protect in a not favorable conjuncture which the current one. We believe that solutions must to be developed for future that they protect city, but that they in any case guarantee an activity that is source of yield for thousands of places of work, online with the great tradition of hospitality that marks Venice".

On the svoltosi importance of the event today the vice president of Cruise Venice has stopped itself, Emilio Gamba: "after beyond 50 years dedicated to the sea, the ships and the port - it has asserted - I see myself forced to manifest in favor of the maintenance and of the promotion of the great cruise ships to Venice, not considering these responsibles of a meaningful environmental pollution. The crocieristica today to Venice represents the only positive note in economic terms and of maintenance of places of work and only field that can mitigate the disastrous effects of the crisis on the total traffic of the port of Venice".

With respect to the environmental of the crocieristico traffic with the lagoon habitat, clear compatibility the position of the vice president of CruiseVenice, PierLuigi Penzo: "the modern and great ships cruise - it has found - are considered and rewarded by the international institutes of classification as most valid for the environmental sustainability of the marine traffic. The cruise ships have hull dislocating and not gleaned as the floating totality of the Lagunari, for which to the established maximum speed of six knots they do not create turbulences, waves, suck etc Moreover the Harbour office, as subject with high professional competence and super partes, have in the issued time specific and rigid decrees as obligation of the double pilot, double quantity tug, etc".