Delrio confirmation the performance of the part to earth of project VOOPS of Venice



The minister of Infrastructures and the Transports has confirmed that the new offshore harbour platform planned from the Harbour Authority of Venice and mail to out of the Lagoon is solution the characterized in order not to stray from Venice carried out the international mercantile marine traffic with the great ships of last and next generation.

Taking part today to the inauguration of the new toilets terminal of the Venetian airport Marco Polo, Graziano Delrio has remembered that in the past weeks the documentation for definitive the free way to the start of the work to Marghera Port is sent to the Cipe in the within of the project "off-shore Venice on-Shore port system" (VOOPS) for the realization of the offshore port. But he has sibillinamente specified that for the part of the relative project to the construction of the platform he mails outside from the Lagoon are necessary ulterior deepenings.

Deepenings that will not be got ahead by Paolo Costa, current president of the Harbour Authority of Venice and access supporter of the necessity to put into effect project VOOPS, but that instead they will be discussed with the new president of the agency about to transformation in Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale. Thanking Coast for the job completed for the development of the port, minister Delrio in fact has announced that the name of the new president, that already has been chosen, will be announced to days.

Equally sibylline, or if only less chiarificatrici, have been the precisazioni of the minister about the future presence of the great cruise ships to Venice, units that - Delrio has asserted - will not land more to the Marine one, while according to the representative of the government it is necessary to characterize solutions in the long term estimating landings place to Marghera or Fusina. Delrio however has confirmed that it goes applied I only decree to Clini-Passera affording the income in Lagoon to the smaller ships.

The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has hurried to assure that the minister has not intended to exclude the entrance of the cruise ships in the Lagoon of Venice neither tantomeno the landings place to the Marine Station, that they would be been profitable possible with the performance of the project Tresse Nuovo that previews the preparation of a way alternative that would allow with the great ships to reach it without to journey in front of San Marco and in the channel of the Giudecca.