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To Venice the escavo of the Sant'Angelo-Contort channel for the transit of the great ships it can be made in 19 months
Coast: "on the realization of the solution of the problem of the great cruise ships to Venice the credibility of the Country is on stack"
September 25, 2014
Today to Venice the president of the Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, has introduced in preview the specific aspects of the project of escavo of the Sant'Angelo-Contort channel, via of water that in occasion of the interdepartmental reunion 8th August is characterized which broken in order to make to reach the great cruise ships the Marine Station moving away them from San Marco, with the objective allowing the maintenance of Venice which port for the crocieristico traffic.
Coast has evidenced that the participation does not have meaningful effects on the hydraulic order of the Lagoon, confers 6,4 million cubic metres of not polluted sediments in order to realize the works of morphologic recovery of the central Lagoon (the plan for the morphologic recovery and environmental of the lagoon of Venice it estimates requirements almost 7.1 cubic metres of sediments for the realization of the characterized participations) and offers also the occasion of a naturalistic and landscaped revitalization through a ittico resettlement.
The tempistica of execution of the project, than next monday it will be introduced the public, it is of 19 months, with an economic plan that fixed the costs of the work in 42 million euros for escavo and ricalibratura, 71 million for the morphologic recovery, 33 million for sottoservizi and three million for several burdens. "I have a my idea - Paolo Costa has asserted - on as recovering these figures, but it is to the government to decide. In any case I believe that this problem can be resolved in spite of the terrible situation of the public finance. And, however, he is clearly that all the work will go then in European contest".
The president of the Harbour Authority of Venice has emphasized that "on the realization of the solution of the problem of the great cruise ships to Venice the credibility of the Italy Country is on stack with the international companies of navigation".
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