Projects for cruise landings at the mouth of the Tiber can be an opportunity to restore navigability of the river to the heart of Rome. This opportunity is was highlighted on Friday as part of the "Tiber day", which took place in Rome at the De Pinedo airport, in occasion of the round table "Towards the Jubilee 2025: Rome and Fiumicino between navigability and metropolitan regeneration of the Tevere" organized by the International Propeller Club Port of Rome.

During the meeting, the interventions of the technicians illustrated the latest airworthiness projects Tiber recently developed and proposed by public entities and private, with ups and downs, to the attention of the institutions. The Theme has forcefully returned to attention as a result of the acceleration impressed on the realization of the two new ones port initiatives at the mouth of the river, one by the Authority of Port System of the Central Northern Tyrrhenian Sea and a of Fiumicino Waterfront Srl, a company incorporated under Italian law participated by the American cruise group Royal Caribbean that invests about 434 million euros in view of the 2025 Jubilee for the construction of a new cruise port in Fiumicino, intervention inserted in the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of the last 8 June for the Jubilee 2025. In that regard, it is It has been pointed out that the river is already theoretically navigable and that a first phase of interventions feasible by 2025, estimated at around €120 million, could understand the regularization of a two-way channel navigable safely at a speed compatible with times journey of 60-90 minutes from the mouth to the Port of Ripa Grande and of another similar taken from the Tiber Island to the Approdo Duca d'Aosta, re-evaluating the docks as an urban structure. It is It has been pointed out that the technical and environmental problems are all Soluble in engineering.

It was also pointed out that the river route, as well as offering a wonderful opportunity to cruise passengers and pilgrims to visit important pre-existing archaeological sites and landscaping, would allow, even with the use of boats electric, to contribute to decarbonisation and avoid the entrance into the city of numerous tourist buses.

If the rapporteurs highlighted the feasibility of projects for the navigability of the river, it was However, it has been noted that such interventions are hampered by the Number of competences on the river that are devolved pro quota to different institutions, including the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, through the operational arm of the Port Authorities, the Lazio Region, the Metropolitan City, the Municipalities of Rome and of Fiumicino, the Superintendence of the Ministry of Culture. Instead, it has been pointed out, it would be necessary to identify a single implementing subject that takes charge first of all of the "vision", of the design, of the process of sharing, debate public, consensus building and project approval itself, of its realization and management over a period of time at least ten years, until the Jubilee of 2033.

The hypothesis has emerged, if the institutions deem it implementable through a special memorandum of understanding, of the Establishment of an urban development company on the model of the Dutch experience, participated by public and private entities with the aim of enhancing the PPP instrument, to be financed initially for operation and design, which would guarantee technical expertise, continuity and operability long-term. Representatives of the Propeller Club of Rome have announced that the association will engage with its members to support institutions in the development of the contents of this Memorandum of Understanding, the first step to hinge and concretize The initiative.