the Committee Cruise Venice writes tomorrow to the mayor Orsoni in sight of the reunion on the great ships to Venice



In sight of the encounter in program tomorrow to Rome centralized on the access of the great ships from cruise to the port of Venice that is convened by the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, the Committee Cruise Venice has addressed a opened letter to the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, in which it evidences the opportunity to maintain the crocieristico traffic in the lagoon city.

"I decree to Clini/Passera that he limits the tonnage of the ships to 40.000 tons of tonnage - they find in the letter the president of Committee Cruise Venice, Massimo Bernardo, and vice-president Emilio Gamba and Pier Luigi Penzo - is a provision not only illogical but also negative because the ships cruise under the 40,000 tons are to anticipates the older ships, therefore more impattanti because than greater draught and with gleaned hulls, but also more polluting for used fuel and the combustion produced from obsolete machinery. One remembers that the Costa Allegra motor-ship and motor-ship MSC Melody, the only ships of Coast and MSC under the 40,000 uneconomical tons have been sold and a which scrapped other because".

the Committee Cruise Venice is opposed to the hypothesis formulated from the mayor to transfer the crocieristici landings place: "the transfer from she proposed of the great ships cruise to Marghera - Bernardo, Gamba and Penzo to Orsoni reply - means to move away definitively such traffic from our port of call. It knows well that it is the only harbour traffic that today works to Venice and in Italy. The loss of such ships, of which Venice it is home port and on which gravitate today approximately six thousand workers, wants to say loss dries for Italy. The shipowners in fact think to transfer the role of home port from Venice to the ports of Pireo and/or Istanbul, certainly not Trieste, Ancona, Bari, etc, the direct and indirect economic damage on a yearly basis is of approximately a billion of euro".

"As very famous and from all the declared - the representatives of the Committee Cruise Venice still observe - problem it is essentially aesthetic, also because from the technical point of view the local Harbour office, that it is subject super partes, has emitted from 1977 today a series of decrees that discipline to the harbour service in way such to guarantee maximum safety and the protection of the atmosphere. It is obvious that all it can be ulteriorly improved".

Referring moreover to the manifestation for the ouster of the great ships from cruise from the Venetian lagoon that is realized last week by the Committee Not Great Ships, the Committee Cruise Venice has written to the mayor Orsoni who "the taken ones of position of its committee and its town council, the consequent disparaging actions of sparuto a group of time loss that they make reference to the social and the not global ones centers, also with a insufficient continuation from the citizenship that progressively it has taken conscience of the problem, risks to carry the shipowners to abandon the port of Venice compromising the place of work of the 6,000 workers cited, in the overwhelming majority young".

"Which took into consideration all how much over - Bernardo, Gamba conclude provocatively and Penzo - is obvious Mr. mayor who, where happened how much from we been worried and provoked from chosen and guidelines of its administration, the staff that had to remain without job would have to find beginning right now its engagement to guarantee the successive occupation near the Municipality of Venice or the numerous societies of the same Municipality, like ACTV, AVM, Veritas, Casino, etc, also very held account of the serious and long period of general crisis that interests to our territorial truth anticipates and not only, we attend therefore a its formal assurance with regard to even already tomorrow in ministerial center".