Even if in Trieste the pollution produced by the ships of cruise is under control, to reduce its impact it could be consider moving the Maritime Station. In summary, this is what the Councilor for Defense said of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Fabio Scoccimarro, at the hearing on the results of the measurements of air pollution from cruises and the assessment of of their impacts on citizenship and of the mitigation that was proposed by Councilor Giulia Massolino to the President of the IV Commission of the Council during which the president of the association "Citizens for the air", Anna Gerometta, and the researcher Axel Friedrich, said they were convinced that real pollution caused by cruise ships is higher than that detected by cruise ships by the Arpa control units, "whose monitoring station it is not placed in compliance with European directives". Representatives of WWF and Fiab also spoke of "serious health risks due to particulate matter emitted by ships', while Andrea Wehrenfennig of Legambiente focused "on the exponential increase in the number of passengers in the large ships in recent years" observing how "the data are old, as they predate the boom in cruises".

In his speech, Councillor Scoccimarro noted that «the current arrangement at the Maritime Station is inadequate and in my opinion - he argued - the Moving large ships to another area: "We cannot then neglect - he said - the fact that the Maritime Station was designed a century ago when there was no traffic and the ships were decidedly smaller. Given the current picture, it is legitimate to hypothesize new location for cruise ship docking operations in New port or old port, adequately equipped". "The current location - added the councilor - causes inconvenience to people and an increase in pollution, even if in less than that produced by cars and plants warm-up". "The situation in Trieste - specified - remains under control. Regarding The pollution produced by large cruise ships is It is undeniable that this has an impact on our territory. Goes however, underlined that, data in hand - he reiterated - it is lower than that produced overall by vehicular traffic and by the different heating systems".

Highlighting ongoing measures to mitigate the impact of the cruise business, including the project already started electrification of the docks, Scoccimarro defended the work of the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA) of Friuli Venezia Giulia, to which - he recalled - entrusted with all pollution monitoring in the Region. ARPA intervened at the hearing with the general manager Anna Lutman and technical director Fulvio Stel, who underlined how the body "is applying the European legislation in force" and as "the positioning of the stations has been subjected to a validation process and sharing certified by the Ministry". As for the data on pollutants, Stel explained that at the moment "the legal limits for nitrogen oxide, PM 10 and PM 2.5. We are also comparing - he added - with the new and more stringent threshold values, those that will come into force in 2030, and at the level of nitrogen oxides we could have some problems in terms of annual average, not on daily exceedances".

"If anyone believes, as he said today - he remarked Councillor Scoccimarro - that these measurements are in in any way distorted, must not call press conferences or post on social media, but report it to the authorities judicial ones".

In his speech Gianluca Madriz, president of Trieste Terminal Passeggeri, the company that manages the Station Marittima, announced that in recent years the number of berths of ships has actually decreased and it has been said ready to provide services wherever you choose to dock your large ships.