From on November 1°, 2014 stop to the transit of the cruise ships of beyond 96.000 tsl in the Channel of the Giudecca to Venice



As a result of the today's encounter to Palazzo Chigi on the passage of the great ships in the Lagoon of Venice the government has announced the decision to prohibit the transit of the direct cruise ships or in departure from Venice for the channel of Giudecca, in performance of I decree Clini-Passera, and to preview a new via of access to the Marine Station, characterized in the Twisted channel Sant'Angelo, as distribution of the Malamocco-Marghera Channel. In the appraisal of environmental impact of this option - it has specified the executive - naturally eventual solutions will be considered alternatives, comprised that of the Vittorio Emanuele Channel; moreover, in consideration of the perspectives of development of the port of Venice, centered on the platform of height and the reclamation and reconversion of the port of Marghera, has been decided to promote a review of the Portuale Town development plan with the objective, among other things, to define and to realize to Marghera alternative sites regarding the current crocieristico terminal.

Waiting for the realization of the new via of access to the Marine Station, moreover it is decided to put in existence as soon as possible effective measures in order to mitigate meaningfully the traffic in the Channel of Giudecca. In particular, on January 1°, 2014 it will have to be prohibited the passage in the same Channel of the ferries, with consequent reduction of 25% of the transits in front of San Marco and 50% of the polluting emissions; on January 1°, 2014 it will have to be reduced until 20% (regarding the 2012) number of the cruise ships of advanced tonnage to the 40,000 qualified tons to journey for the Channel of the Giudecca; from 1º November 2014 it will have to be definitively precluded the transit of the advanced cruise ships to 96.000 tons of tonnage. They will go, at last, assured a reduction of the maximum every day parking (not advanced to five cruise ships of advanced tonnage to the 40,000 tons) and a contraction of the residual passages in the central hours of the day, with concentration of the departures and arrivals to the dawn and the sunset.

To the reunion, presided from the Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has participated the ministers of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, of the Atmosphere, Andrea Orlando, of the Assets and the Cultural Activities and Tourism, Massimo Bray, the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Filippo Patroni Griffi, the general secretary of Palazzo Chigi, Roberto Garofoli, the president of the Venetian Region, Luca Zaia, the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa.

Satisfaction for the outcome of the reunion is expressed by the mayor of Venice: "for the first time - he has emphasized Giorgio Orsoni - the government is taken part in concrete terms on the issue of the great cruise ships, and already this is an important point. Those that is important is that today the tendency to gigantism in Lagoon is invert finally. Enough mega cruises to two steps from San Marco, will since prevail in fact quickly very precise limits on the ships that will be able to enter to Venice". In the course of the today's encounter the mayor has evidenced with force its perplexity regarding the realization of a new channel, Sant'Angelo-Contort, option this that will have to be studied in order to verify the impact that will be able to generate on the atmosphere and the ecosystem. "Moreover - he has added Orsoni - one has settled that the Harbour Authority will give immediate start to the Portuale Town development plan that among other things will have to preview the displacement of the cruises to Marghera Port. I believe that today a full stop is placed establishing finally that mega the cruises are not compatible with Venice and its Lagoon".

The enthusiasm of Orsoni is not shared by the Committee Cruise Venice, that it contests the decisions roman. "From the held encounter today - it has found Massimo Bernardo, president of the association that promotes the crocieristico traffic to Venice - it is understood that remain the ships in Lagoon, the centrality of the current Marine station remains unchanged and will come true the new Twisted channel - Sant'Angelo intentional from the president of the Harbour Authority. The triumphalist and enthusiastic tones of the mayor of Venice are not understood therefore - it has observed Bernardo - that has lost on all the fronts. It can only exult for the absurd limit of the income in lagoon of the ships with advanced tonnage to the 96,000 tons and the consequent loss of 180 touched/year. A limit irrational, therefore, that it could be carried at least to 110.000 tons, lacking in every scientific foundation that - it has concluded the president of Committee Cruise Venice - will end in order to put in knee the port of Venice and of it will mark the end. It compliments"