Forty-one crocieristiche companies have undersigned the voluntary agreement "Venice Blue Flag 2017"



The voluntary agreement "Venice has been undersigned today to Venice Blue Flag 2017" with which 41 crocieristiche companies they have been engaged to use fuels to low sulfur content in order to enter and to pause to the Marine Station of the lagoon city. The understanding, to which it has arrived graces also to the collaboration of the Harbour office of Venice, is signed to House Jerkins from the representatives of the marine companies, the Municipality of Venice and the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale.

With the agreement, that it follows those analogous ones sign during the last few years, the crocieristiche companies are engaged to make to work the main and auxiliary engines of their ships with fuel for marine use with not advanced sulfur tenor to 0.1% in mass, and this not only to the mooring, but also while browsing and the phases of maneuver inside of the harbour area of Venice. Moreover the edge cars will be managed so as to reduce the most possible injurious emissions of drainage gases.

The alderman to the Atmosphere, Massimiliano De Martin, has emphasized that "for the municipal administration it has been important in the first place to extend the valence of the agreement to 12 months. Also aware of the fact that the crocieristica activity cove in the winter months - it has explained - we want that the attention to the atmosphere is always guaranteed. Moreover it is intentional to head at the transparency, a lot is true that the data of the controls carried out from the Harbour office will be published are on the website of the Municipality of Venice, than on that of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico".

De Martin has evidenced that another important reached result is that the agreement has been undersigned from all the 40 companies that will make port of call to Venice this year, plus that in 2017 will not touch the Lagoon: "this - it has observed - demonstrates that Venice can indeed become flies, to international level, of the environmental policies pursued in the city. Come Comune we consider the signature today the beginning of a distance, that we would appreciate to face with the crocieristiche companies, to go to the objective to explain the passengers what is Venice and as it goes lived and dealt it happens already on board".

"The signature of the agreement Blue Flag - the president of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale has remembered, Pino Musolino - is a voluntary and right engagement for regarding our city and to its history millenarian; saying this we do not have ourselves to be satisfied. The Authority of Harbour System - it has specified Musolino - sure will continue to work with the other institutions and to the companies in order to return more and more compatible this important traffic with the city. Already for a long time we are in fact working because Venice in the Adriatic becomes the first hub for the supply and storage of the which liquified natural gas, a fuel green that it will offer to the ships of new generation, already today under construction, the possibility to use an able fuel to pull down the emissions of particulate matter and sulfur. Parallel the dialogue with the ministries continues in order to find a solution combined in order to comply, finally, to decrees Clini-Passera".

The marine director, captain Goffredo Bon of Veneto and commander of the port of Venice, confirming the customary engagement of the marine authority in the control activity and monitoring for the respect of the limits inherent to the sulfur content of fuel to marine use previewed from enforced the communitarian and national norm in matter, as well as from the Blue Venice agreement Flag, has emphasized that the renewed voluntary agreement also for this year "also has seen a widening of the subject signers".

"This protocol, in being until from the 2007 and that by then it is profitable gradually more tightening and effective one in the reduction of the emissions - Sandro Trevisanato has rimarcato, president of Venice Terminal Passeggeri (VTP), the society that manages the Marine Station of Venice - once again demonstrates the vanguard of the port of Venice in environmental topic. A engagement in the safeguard of the Lagoon, shared also from companies that will not be you anticipate this year in our port of call, but that they have asked equally to sign in symbolic form".

The director of the CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association) Italy, Francesco Galietti, has evidenced that "the crocieristica industry represents a smallest percentage of the total of the marine traffic, but - it has specified - is the vanguard in patient compliance with the environmental norm in the respect of Italian and international requirement. The Venice Blue Flag for us represents the concrete occasion of application of our continuous engagement to protection of the atmosphere".