Sul problem of the cruise ships to which the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports is prohibited the access to the Italian ports decides not to decide



At all the anguished event of the cruise ships has not been concluded paradoxical and to which, in this moment of emergency for the pandemic of Covid-19, the landing place in the ports is prohibited because it is not possible to ulteriorly overload the national health system of the assistance lend, if of the need, to the passengers and the members of the crews. This, at least, is today the motivation more frequently adduced in order to prohibit the mooring in the ports of many nations, while until a few days ago the justification it was that to avoid that the people really or theoretically contaminated on board of the ships could diffuse the virus between the population of the landing place nation.

I distinguish between yesterday and today it is also that relative one to the flag of the ship. For example in Italy, but in some other nation happens the same one here, yesterday - when the pandemic seemed an epidemic and when this virus did not seem more lethal than a simple infuence - wondered to authority of other Countries that a cruise ship of Italian flag in navigation, that I know, in Asia could approach to a port of the region so that at least the passengers, if the crew, could not make return at home or, if sick, they could be aids.

Today, always in Italy, who invokes with reason that to the cruise ships near our coasts must be granted of being able to enter ago in the Italian ports emphasizing that these ships are of Italian flag and, as such, must be obligatorily received in our ports of call, omitting that the turned appeal hardly two weeks ago to other governments was in order to exhort them to sheltering in foreign earth to Italian ships and neglecting the fact that today in front of the Italian coasts, but also already within the national ports, is cruise ships or mercantile of foreign flags that on board even have passengers and part of the crew of Italian nationality. As if yesterday the passport did not have value and today counted as a safe-conduct. We do not refer, obviously, to the passport of the marine ones because, if that of the passengers still seems to count something, that of the edge staff before weighed little and now it has become waste paper.

And yesterday to Rome, to the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, to the table with the Authorities of convened Harbour System from ministra Paola De Micheli it has been discussed also about this problem, that - it has explained the ministry in a note - exactly "of the cruise ships clappers Italian flag still in navigation "and of the "necessity to finalize, as soon as possible, the plan, for the next sure landings place in our ports". The problem, in itself, seems easy to resolve: to before it assesses you, and now it seems that there are the instruments in order to make it, if on board of these ships there are people who turn out positive to the tests for the coronavirus; if us they are not any you allow with these people to disembark and to return at home; if us they are some you make them however to disembark subjecting them to the necessary period of quarantine or, if sick, you make them to assist using the staff and the sanitary equipments available. And this would have to be worth obviously also for the marine ones of foreign nationality that, if it is true as it is true that yesterday and today they had and have duties in today confronts of their employer, so as yesterday their employer, the Italian shipowner (granted that it is Italian even if the flag of its ship the e), duties also has some in theirs confronts which that it is their passport.

If yesterday it were inconceivable that an Italian crocierista seriously sickened did not come urgently assisted in Asia and that to an Italian crocierista in health was not granted to make re-enters in homeland, today is equally absurd that marine a Philippine sufferer cannot be cured in a nation that is not its or that to a marine healthy thailandese it is not allowed to return at home.

Only the Italian unions, taking part on this argument, generally have been distinguished in not making passport distinction. Also yesterday the regional and territorial secretariats of the Liguria di Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, asking the institutions to receive the ships of Costa Crociere in the ports of the region, also emphasizing that "the marine Italians have right of to be received in the Italian ports", they have lodevolmente specified that "our ports can help also marine the not Italian ones to return near their places of attended origin in that the market of the cruises leaves again".

In the note of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, instead, there is the quintessence of the pilatesco attitude. The berthings - this is the resolutive solution to the problem gushed from the encounter yesterday - "will have to happen without to overload in some way the receptive ability of the regional health systems already strongly put a great strain on. Therefore - the note concludes - a plan inspired to the solidarity and the sanitary sustainability". Already, but which is the plan?

Bruno Bellio