Undersigned to Venice the Venice agreement Blue Flag 2016 in order to diminish the emissions of the cruise ships



Fridays to Venice, in occasion of the World-wide Day of the Earth, the Municipality, the Harbour office and the Harbour Authority of Venice have signed with 34 Blue crocieristiche companies the Venice Flag 2016, the agreement of voluntary nature with which the navigation societies are engaged to use cleaned fuel, with a level of sulfur extremely low and by far inferior regarding the enforced norms. The signature of the protocol has been undersigned from the city council member to the economic Development of the territory of the Municipality, Simone Venturini, from the commander of the Harbour office, Tiberio Piattelli, of the general secretary of the Harbour Authority, Claudia Marcolin, and from the representatives of the crocieristiche companies.

In particular the agreement, that it will last for all 2016, while browsing previews that the companies are engaged to make to not only work the main and auxiliary engines of their ships with fuel for marine use with not advanced sulfur tenor to 0.1% in mass to the mooring, but also and the phases of maneuver inside of the port of Venice, from the mouth of long port of Lido the city marine Lagunari channels. A measure that anticipates how much previews the norm, that, for the Italian ports, fixed a percentage of inferior sulfur of 0.5% beginning from 2020.

Commander Piattelli has emphasized that draft of "an important result under the profile of the environmental protection, safety, the safeguard of the city and its monumental patrimony, to which she has been arrived after along job of coordination of the municipal administration and from the Harbour office that they have supported and promoted I renew of the protocol".

In occasion of the subscription of the understanding Flags on the quality of the air are evidenced Blue the very positive effects of the Venice. According to the technical appraisals of the Arpav, confirmed from studies of the CNR and the University, represents the more effective measure for the reduction of polluting the atmospheric ones deriving from the crocieristico naval traffic: reduction of 2% for Nox, oxides of nitrogen, 46% for PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, powders, and of 91% for SO2, sulfureous anhydride.

"Thanks to this agreement - it has emphasized Claudia Marcolin - the port of fleeting Venice turns out to be the port more green of Italy and Europe. Moreover the benefit in terms of smaller calculated negative externalities on the emissions turns out to be of two million euro".

The Venturini alderman has found as the protocol represents a true and effective answer to the critics of who nozzle grida of alarm being based on data that do not have validated methodical normative references neither of survey. "The subscription of the agreement - it has added - is the occasion in order to restate to the government the urgency to take a useful decision on the project Tresse Nuovo, the only solution alternative that Common and Port, with, they have characterized in order to move the ships from the basin of San Marco. He is moreover fundamental to resume in hand the issue of the limitations of 96mia the tons placed from I decree Clini Passera that in fact they have prevented to the more modern ships, surer and less polluting than to enter in Lagoon".