Propeller Club of Venice denunciation the murder of the port of the city



To place to Rome Large square, to the income of Venice, a great full crystal coffin of testimonies on that it is being made in order to cancel places of work in the companies that operate for the crocieristico, commercial and industrial port of the city and in order to remember residents and tourists who the port is dying. It is the provocative proposal launch and shared from great part of the operators associated in the International Propeller Club Port of met Venice friday to the Luna Baglioni hotel of Venice for the anniversary "Charter night".

"For the crocieristico traffic - president of Propeller Venetian Club has remembered, Massimo Bernardo, in the course of the encounter - we are still in open sea with the only certainty, this yes, than from on 1° January to the ships of beyond 96.000 tons of tonnage it will not be more allowed the transit for the basin of San Marco and this, as you will sure have learned from prints, while some companies, as for example Costa Crociere, have already chosen Trieste as home port, but those that is more serious for the lack of decisions on the many progettuali hypotheses to adopt in via alternative to the transit for the channel of the Giudecca and the saint basin Marco".

Bernardo has moreover found that also the commercial port is in suffering because of the fall of traffics with consequent resource to the redundancy fund, not to mention the industrial port that today is in the limbo waiting for the announced one slowly of reconversion of Marghera Port. A total situation, therefore, not certainly rose-colored indeed "for sure aspects dramatic - it has emphasized - if we think that from too many years at this point we have felt "great announcements for great projects": from NAPA to the offshore platform, the several progettuali hypotheses for the great ships, to the assumed system of the high Adriatic, to the great highway and railway infrastructures etc. etc. All with far expirations, unfortunately too much far regarding the crisis that grips our port! In fact, besides the new terminal ro-ro about to completion to Fusina, moreover used from the single Anek Lines against an investment of beyond 220 million euros, nothing of new under the sun while little months lack to the dismissal and not the rieleggibilità of the president of the port, Paolo Costa, to I renew of the municipal administration with the next elections of May, to the re-election of the Board of Directors of the Venice Passenger terminal in expiration, to - we hope next - the conclusion of the iter bankrupt of the Interporto of Venice that we hope it soon resumes to work to full regime, at the close of marine agencies and to the difficulties of many shipment enterprises that in order to survive choose other more competitive ports"

"We are living - it has continued Bernardo - a very delicate period in which the voice of the entrepreneurs, shared and supported from all trade associations, would have to be made to feel, today more than ever, hard and determined as generated from "people of the trade" that to the current and future summits of the several agencies that they govern today and they will tomorrow govern the life of the port and all the transport, it would have to indicate the lines it guides for an aware and it realizes political of
infrastructural, structural and merceologica development adapted to the potentialities and to the logistics of our territory".

"No change of route, therefore, for our part regarding the past - it has concluded Bernardo - but, in the common interest, I ask and I wish the engagement of all in order to make of our society an audience of attention entrepreneurs, more inclined the critic and intelligent I confront that to the usual, customary, winning applause to the turn personage when then every our meeting remains, as often unfortunately it has happened from time to time, a closed chapter. We must instead give continuity to our job not only facing the unproductive criticalities of the system but also, in order to construct with that task force of local entrepreneurial excellence that are able to listen and to make to listen to in the competent centers so that the city of Venice, people and institutions, today absentees recognize finally to own port and its operators an important part of own economy, of that which, in its history, it has introduced it all over the world as "Queen in the seas". We cannot more shut up or give all for discounted when we assist almost impotent to a constant degradation of all this that the port has for decades represented".