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For the first time Venice has accommodated the assembly of the International Seafarers Welfare and Assistance Network
Incontro between all the world-wide delegates of approximately 30 associations
May 26, 2014
For the first time Venice has accommodated the assembly anniversary of the International Seafarers Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), the organization that promotes the well-being of the marine ones all over the world. Hosts of the Harbour Authority near Spaceport, to Saint Marta, last week all the world-wide delegates of approximately 30 associations have met in order to debate of the carried out activities and like being able to supply an always better service to the "seafarers".
the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Claudia Marcolin, has opened the technical seminary emphasizing that still today for the professionals the truth of the marine ones often little is even known and neglected, also being the fundamental fulcrum of the transport via sea. "Task is ours must - Marcolin has declared - operate to the aim to put on of these people all those services that return more liveable their daily life that, also being I yield of they free choice, is much stressful one. The port of Venice, with the presence of the Seamen's Club, inside of the tourist port of call of Marine, is considered to the vanguard in the field of the assistance the workers of the crocieristico field, proposing itself like "friendly port" for which they land to Venice. But we want to go also beyond, it is for that is our intention to reactivate the Territorial Committee of Venice for the Welfare of the Seafarers, that it has the specific scope to undertake and to coordinate actions finalized to the promotion and the development of the welfare of the marine ones that arrive to our port".
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