the CLIA adopts the dispositions of the Harbour office of Venice on the restrictions to the transit of the great ships to San Marco



Today to Rome a reunion between the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports has been carried out, Maurizio Lupi, that of the Atmosphere, Gianluca Galletti, and the undersecretary of Beni Culturali, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, in the course of which it has been taken note of the engagement of the CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association) with which the association of the crocieristiche companies ago voluntarily and unilaterally own the dispositions of the Harbour office of Venice on the restrictions taxes to the transit of the great ships in the basin of San Marco, suspended a month ago from the Regional Administrative Court for Veneto ( on 17 March 2014)

In particular, from on November 30, 2014 the ships with advanced tonnage to the 96,000 tons more from the Basin than San Marco and the channel of the Giudecca. Moreover from quickly the companies they are engaged to employ fuels for marine use with not advanced sulfur tenor to 0.1% in mass, from the income and for all the permanence in Lagoon. At last the reduction already from 2014 of the transits of the cruise ships of beyond 40 thousand tons in the channel of the Giudecca is previewed.

"Positive - the minister of the Atmosphere has commented, Gian Luca Galletti - the sign that reaches from the shipowners which I ask also to avoid to make to journey for Venice old ships and therefore less sure. The choice that the "skyscrapers of the sea" not child's step more for the basin than San Marco is at this point acquired to protection of the lagoon atmosphere and the artistic miracle that is Venice. We will proceed in the short times with the choice of the alternative distance in order to assure "environmental feasibility" and to protect the tourist economy".

"Venice - it has emphasized minister Lupi - cannot more wait for. The factor time is decisive. The availability of the companies is in so far as positive for a transient period, now must assume as government the responsibility of a definitive solution". To such purpose it is announced that the presidency of the Council will convene at the end of the next week a reunion with the three ministries involved to the aim to characterize the definitive solution for the alternative distance in order to reach the Marine Station and to give full performance so to the Clini-Passera law.

The engagement assumed from the CLIA is received favorably also by the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice: "I am pleased - Paolo Costa has explained - than the companies of crocieristica navigation have received the invitation to so accept in voluntary form the limitations to the traffic as agreed 5th November to Palazzo Chigi and on which the Regional Administrative Court of Veneto had tax the suspensory one. They are still more pleased - it has explained - because today, against this engagement, the government us confirmation that within the 2016 we will have a water way alternative in order to arrive in Marine without passing in front of San Marco. The disarmonica disproportion between the great ships and the Venetian constructed one is eliminated so without to put in crisis the Venetian and national crocieristica, the port of Venice as an all and Venetian and Venetian economy".

While today the minister of the Atmosphere, referring to the hypothesis of transfer in Turkey of the property left at death one of the Costa Concordia ship for its dismantling that is shown by the head of the civil Protection and commissioner for the emergency on the shipwreck of the Concord, Franco Gabrielli, in occasion of the today's informal audition near the Ambient commission of the Chamber of Deputies, has restated that "the Concord goes dismantled in Italy. Our Country - it has emphasized Gian Luca Galletti - has all quickly the consequences of this tragedy: the victims, the damages to the atmosphere, fallen back economic and the serious damage of image. It is right that today Italy can have new job opportunity and, more in general terms, for the economy tied to the dismantling of the ship".