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the measures anti-terrorism - denunciation La Spezia Port Service - risk to exclude Italian destinations from the crocieristici routes
31 ports of call in oadstead of cruise ships in the Gulf of La Spezia could be cancelled
August 12, 2016
The new measures anti-terrorism risk to exclude Italian destinations from the routes of the cruise ships. The denunciation La Spezia Port Service, society constituted from the associations of the shipping agents, the shippers and the customs brokers of, announcing that "it is Port Venus, in the Gulf of La Spezia, the first "victim" of the new measures anti-terrorism that the Ministry of the Insides has tax to all the Italian ports".
Emphasizing that "31 ports of call in oadstead of cruise ships in the Gulf of La Spezia are by now destined to be cancelled with the application of the controls previewed from Alert 2 in security topic", Andrea Fontana, president of the Association shipping agents of La Spezia, specifying however the full understanding of the advanced requirements of safety, evidences that "the case of Port Venus risks to being only the tip of the iceberg. All the cruise ships that rather than to moor itself in a port, have opted in these years for the most evocative parking in oadstead, in the vicinity of some between the more fascinating tourist destinations - Fontana explains - today run the same danger of zero setting".
"The Harbour office and the Harbour Authority of La Spezia - Fontana adds - are trying to attenuate to the most possible effects negatives of the new security measures, also through the application of preferred tariffs, in Marine Station, but the obligation of capillary controls fleeting for passenger, evidently justified from incumbent dangers, is however generating damages to little say consisting harbour the marine economy and, but also to that commercial and tourist of the destinations, as Port Venus, than by now from years they have been equipped in order to receive and to satisfy the question of the crocieristi".
"He would be at least indispensable - Fontana concludes - than the same level of alert and therefore of control measures the portualità Mediterranean, French, Spanish and in particular Greek was applied in all, in order to ask for new forms of distortion of the competition and therefore of penalization of the Italian market".
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The new measures anti-terrorism risk to exclude Italian destinations from the routes of the cruise ships. The denunciation La Spezia Port Service, society constituted from the associations of the shipping agents, the shippers and the customs brokers of, announcing that "it is Port Venus, in the Gulf of La Spezia, the first "victim" of the new measures anti-terrorism that the Ministry of the Insides has tax to all the Italian ports".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
