Agreement of Confcommercio, Assoporti and Federagenti with the scope to guarantee the landing place of the cruise ships to Venice



Today to Rome the entrepreneurial confederation and professional Confcommercio, the association of the harbour authorities Assoporti and the association of the shipping agents Federagenti have undersigned a pact in order to guarantee the future of the crocieristico traffic to Venice and with the objective to search solutions apt to guarantee balance and interaction between the safeguard of the "Venice patrimony" and the defense of a tourist row, that of the cruises that - they have emphasized the three organizations - the irrenounceable key element sees in Venice and for all the Adriatic.

Confcommercio, Assoporti and Federagenti have specified that draft of "a pact not in contrast with who are opposed to the presence of the great ships in lagoon, but finalized instead returning this activity an added value for Venice and the entire Italian crocieristico system".

The agreement is signed to the term of a convention that has held near the center of Confcommercio from the general manager of Confcommercio Francesco Rivolta, from the president of Assoporti, Pasqualino Monti, and from the president of Federagenti Michele Pappalardo, that he has been the promoter of the initiative.

In its Turned participation it has evidenced that "Venice cannot lose its eminent role in international the crocieristico traffic" and that "the loss of this role would provoke to infallible damages to all the economy of the entire Mediterranean oriental. Not only of the Lagoon, neither only of Alto Adriatico - it has explained - since Venice it is the pole of attraction and reference for the crocieristico traffic of the entire Mediterranean area oriental, until Aegeus".

The protocol undersigned from Confcommercio, Assoporti and Federagenti, than - it has specified Turned - has the objective "to speed up the government to meet head-on the problem of the access of the great cruise ships in the city of Venice", it remembers that Venice is a home port, where therefore the passengers they embark and they disembark (17% of the Italy total) and as such leaves fallen back the city and it is the antithesis of the transit port that is the expression of tourism bites and escapes. To Venice crocieristico tourism produces 284 million euros of local expense, with the greater ones fallen back for hotels and restaurants (33%), transports (17%) and stores (15%). Moreover it favors a planning of the tourist flows and "it does not invade" Venice, but integral with the city and its receptive structure (50% of the crocieristi in home port passes at least a night in hotel).

The document evidences moreover that in the cruises Italy attracts 50% of the Mediterranean home porting (Civitavecchia-Venice) and that if Venice lost this traffic others ten ports would have to tackle to a financial ruin of the activity. The economic loss would be pairs to 210 million euros of estimated turnover on total of 510 million euros and to risk they would be also thousands of places of work let alone beyond 200 million euros of investments to Venice and in the other adriatic ports.

Confcommercio, Assoporti and Federagenti confirm moreover that the ships affect in marginal percentage the air pollution in Lagoon and that the Venetians estimate positively the crocieristica activity: for 70% the cruises are an opportunity, while only less of 10% of the Venetians it thinks that the passage of the great ships is the main problem of Venice. In order almost 60% of the Venetians the determined economic damages from the removal of the cruise ships would be highest and between the 67 and 83% they think that the institutions are engaged little in order to resolve the issue.

If the topic of the transit of the cruise ships in the Lagoon of Venice and their landing place to the Station of Marine continues to being object of controversies, the traffic of bulk to Marghera Port this morning celebrates a new record with the arrival to the Terminal Bulk Italy (TRI) of the Eurports group of the ship Shimanami Queen, long 200 meters and wide beyond 32, with beyond 50 thousand tons of coming protein flour from at the market agricultural and food- the destined Louisiana and of the Italy north. With this new consisting bulk disembarkation the port of Venice consolidates and strengthens so its position of strategic port of call for the agricultural and food- produced ones of Alto Adriatico. "The arrival of a ship of these dimensions to Marghera - it has found Marco Corbellini president and managing director of the Euroports group in Italy - once again attests to the abilities to the group Euroports in the management and quantitative important handling of goods. We are more and more proud of being able to show our abilities to disembarkation, storage and gives back helter-skelter of large quantitative of goods and being able, so, to reconfirm the leadership conquered in the field of the agribulk". In the first eleven months of the 2014 port of Venice it has made to mark a +3.8% in the field agribulk and +50.8% in the field of the cereals regarding the same period of 2013.