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For the great ships - the Harbour Authority of Venice exhorts - it is time to pass from the blatant gestures to the decisions
Every other temporeggiamento - the agency emphasizes - will have the single consequence not to make to reach the objective primary to remove the ships from San Marco
September 24, 2013
The protest for the access in the Lagoon of Venice of the great cruise ships guided from the Committee Not Great Ships and culminated saturday slid with the dive of manifesting in the channel of the Giudecca in order to prevent the transit of the boats has had an immediate and immense media success. An outcome of the dispute that has provoked the opposite protest of the Harbour Authority of Venice that it has emphasized as "the time of the imaginative ideas and the blatant gestures" as note has expired the dives or - it has specified the agency - "the completed vandalici actions against the reception crocieristi to the Marco Polo airport, more execrable than it has not been made in these days". The harbour authority has evidenced that, "after to have recognized to all the right to express own opinions, goes received with favor the sollicitation of the Prime Minister Enrico Letta. It must pass - it has explained the harbour agency - to the exercise of "right-it must" formulate the opinions previewed from the law and of the "duty" to take the decisions of which the responsibilities are carried".
"It is right to listen to all - it has continued the Harbour Authority - but must that to decide it is who of it has the faculty for law. And the decision on the "navigable way alternative to the passage of the ships of advanced tonnage to the 40,000 tons in front of saint Marco and along the channel of the Giudecca" will have to be taken from the Marine Authority (Harbour office) with own provision. Provision to which the Harbour Authority will concur loyal with the due opinions in order to supply all the necessary elements to a total appraisal, corrected and, we hope, definitive".
"Every other temporeggiamento, chats, defended of interests of part, temporary and not resolutive solution (or worse), than it does not preview a definitive measure of along term - it has concluded the Harbour Authority - will have the single consequence to set aside of new the problem and not to make to reach the intentional primary objective from all, firstly from the Harbour Authority: to remove the ships from San Marco".
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