Venetian Assoagenti accusation the Municipality of Venice not to defend the fundamental value of the portualità in the economy of the city



Commenting the manifestation last weekend against the passage of the great cruise ships in the Lagoon of Venice, qualified protests as a "instrumental controversy", the Association Raccomandatari Agents and Marine Mediatori of Veneto defend the role of Venice which crocieristico port and emphasize the absolute respect of the safety regulations by the cruise ships that journey in Lagoon.

Precise Venetian Assoagenti that "the ships that have sailed from Venice 21 saturdays september have respected, as anyway makes always, all the enforced norms in particular those in matter of safety of navigation. In addition, the first four left ships, as all, with at least an hour of delay, have an inferior tonnage to the 40,000 tons and have attended with overwhelmed closed and fleeting doors to the search of an explanation. Explanation - the association emphasizes - than exactly our associates, raccomandatari agents of the Italian shipowners and foreign involontari protagonists of the saturday block, have found great embarrassment and difficulty to give: for the umpteenth time, also operating in the respect of the rules, the passengers and the shipowners they come lesi in their rights at the hands of who he uses actions that of lawyer they have very little. This situation - Venetian Assoagenti stigmatizes - is the umpteenth demonstration of as our Country can be less and less object of the interests of investor foreign countries, date the impossibility to operate in a system of sure rules".

The association finds that, "considered the important and strategic opportunity represented from the development of the market of the cruises, all the harbour systems try to in fact separate the commercial flows from those of the passengers. This happens - Venetian Assoagenti explains - for a series of reasons, firstly for reasons of decongestione of the traffic, possibility of increase future and not last safety of navigation. Examples of this are the port of Bari, where they are moving the commercial docks outside from the center, the port of Civitavecchia that is being expanded on Fiumicino, the port of Genoa that has docks in the heart pulsates of the separate city for the commercial traffic and fleeting, the port of Ravenna that has carried outside from the channel the passenger terminal, exactly separating the two flows. Seen the configuration, the limitations and the volumes of traffic (about 20 million tons) of the commercial port of Marghera - Venetian Assoagenti observes - the approach proposed from some technical improvising to unify the two types of traffics goes evidently towards a deleterious situation for both traffics, with impossibility to maintain the programming hour of the ships, with considerable delays in all the operations, with for services technical-nautical exorbitant costs and the times lost, but above all with undeniable problems of given safety the compresenza of naturally incompatible traffics".

Claiming "with force, but always in the limits you set up from the norms, own engagement intended to the safeguard of the city, to the prompt availability of an income way alternative for the great ships", the Association Raccomandatari Agents of Veneto evidences "the intransgressible necessity to make to land the fleeting ships to the terminal cruises of Marine".

Venetian Assoagenti concludes formulating an accusation the municipal administration whose "appearing only aspiration", "however at this point express revealed, is - second the association - to take control the terminal cruises of Marine in order using it to various uses so not to preserve altogether the fundamental value of the portualità in the economy of the city".