Wolves: the responsibility, shared from all is assumed us, than in front of Venice the great ships not child's step more



Within next the 25 July will have to be defined the alternatives to the current route covered from the great ships in the Lagoon of Venice. Course is decided today in of reunion turns near ministry of Infrastructures and of Transports that is convened by minister Maurizio Lupi and to which they have participated the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, the president of the Venetian Region, Luca Zaia, the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa, the commander of the Body of the Harbour offices, admiral, Felicio Angrisano, and the representatives of the shipowners. For the government the minister of the Atmosphere was present also, Andrea Orlando.

In the course of the encounter it has been convene that the objectives to safeguard are two. In the first place the protection of the atmosphere intended broadly speaking, as environmental impact on the Lagoon of the solutions that will be proposed and as compatibility of scale of the ships that pass in the channel of the Giudecca and the basin of San Marco. In the second place the safeguard of the economic value of tourism for the city of Venice and the Venetian region.

Moreover general agreement on the application is expressed, without ulterior temporal delays, of I decree Passera-Clini that it prohibits the passage of the ships beyond 40 thousand tons in the Giudecca and to San Marco. Moreover it is emphasized that up to now they are taken and they are in existence all the measures that guarantee safety (speed of the ships, towing, use of the less polluting diesel oil) and are asked the eventual Harbour office an ulterior engagement for other measures to adopt in the transient period.

"‘We have characterized - minister Lupi to the term of the reunion has declared - a distance with sure times in which the Marine Authority, the Harbour Authority and the Municipality of Venice mature solutions with times and costs for the performance carry us. The characterized distance today is the only way with which the times are not delayed and the responsibility is assumed us, shared from all, than in front of Venice the great ships not child's step more".

For minister Orlando the encounter has been very positive: "we have obtained - it has explained - the result that there were prefixes: a sure term for the presentation of the projects, on which we will pronounce ourselves from the point of view of the environmental and economic feasibility, and the demand for a package of norms on the transitory one that discipline to meantime the passages in the Lagoon".