The Harbour Authority of Venice anticipates a volume of ideas and projects in order to return the cruises to impact zero for the city



The volume "To Venice from the Sea is available from today in all the bookcases of the Rizzoli Group. The Cruises", published from Marsilio, that it constitutes the second publication of the necklace "the routes of the Lion, studies searches and projects" devised from the Harbour Authority of Venice. In the publication recognized expert in environmental field, economic and technical-ingegneristico (between which Gabriella Chiellino, Francesco di Cesar and Caterina Frisone, curators of the book) they have reasoned on opportunity, challenges, future and impact of the field of the crocieristica to Venice.

In the book collections come analysis and reasonings that analyze a lot discussed topic about the arrival of the cruise ships to Venice and that - has explained the Venetian Harbour Authority - "they aim to today restore the truth of the numberless facts modified from false news or sideboards accumulated over the years and sharpened after the incident of Costa Concordia to the Lily".

The argument is examined thoroughly by the technical-environmental point of view and that economic one emphasizing the value that such field has for the city and the entire Northeast, without to omit also the dictated emotional aspects from that which the president of the Harbour Authority Paolo Costa defines the "Syndrome of Gulliver". "Many of the topics of the debate on Venice, today city symbol protect and to safeguard from the "great ships" without to throw the child of the crocieristica economy with water gets dirty of the returned impacts or to be profitable sustainable - it has evidenced the harbour agency - they are explained and deepened with punctual and precise reasonings, as for example the economic opportunities for determined Venice and the entire Region from the field of the cruises".

"Those which calls in dispregiativa way come "great ships" - it has remembered the Harbour Authority - are instead an activity grown in prorompente way that today appoints to a job not less than 5.470 occupied directed sum of 1.600 occupied directed in services to the ship and the passengers, 2,600 occupied directed in the supply (supplies, maintenances, repairs, bunkeraggio etc) - own single of the ports terminus (home port) - and 1,270 occupied directed activated from the tourist expense to Venice carried out before and after the cruise give about a third party of the disembarked passengers/boarded. A substantial contribution to all the Venetian economy and that it allows to diversify the economic base of lagoon city (76% of the occupation activated from cruises does not depend on the tourist expense of the crocieristi), to characterize the tourist economy (the 600,000 crocieristi tourists - only a third party of which they disembark or is embarked to Venice - is placed in the richer part of beyond the 20 million one annual visitors of Venice)".

According to objective of the publication, less important - it has specified the Harbour Authority - "has not been that to succeed to define amounts, quality and positioning of the crocieristica offer of Venice that are proportioned to the "cargo ability" of the city, that it goes respected in terms of safety of navigation in lagoon, quality of the air not to compromise, control of noise and vibrations, control of the billowy motion and reestablishment of the proportions between the dimensions of the ships and the places in which they can be received. In the pages of the book interesting are found appear, ideas and projects already realized or about to realization actions to return the crocieristica "to impact zero" for the city and are introduced adequate solutions times to hold within limits bearable, if not to cancel completely, the feared effects more that real legacies to the crocierismo in lagoon".

In the third and fourth part of the book in fact those dishonesties are clarified - it has continued the Harbour Authority - "that today feed a distorted debate generally based on wrong information and reasonings dictated from the "Syndrome of Gulliver". The analyzed factors aim to bring back to correct dimension the measure of the impacts and the negative externalities that the crocierismo carries with himself". One of the examples is on the impact of the billowy motion: the system of surveillance camera Hydra that controls the watery traffic along the channel of the Giudecca 24 hours on 24 documents that the cruise ships are not responsible for the superficial waves - all imputable to the local traffic beginning from means ACTV - that they damage the rivers, but only of waves from displacement of the ship in motion, with the same effects of the movements of tide. An other example regards safety of navigation: the particular morphology of the ship canals from the sandy backdrop and the rigid markings out maintained from the escavi continues forces the ships within "railroads" from which they cannot exit. "The cruise ships - it has remembered the harbour agency - move in lagoon with a "redundancy five" (commander of the ship, two pilots who get aboard when the ship is still out of the mouth of port of Lido and two commanders of the two tugs that obligatorily accompany in traction every ship) that it increases the reliability of safety until a limit near that absolute. The feared "bow" - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority - to Venice, is technically impossible"

In the volume some solutions for the future are identified also, between which the creation of a watery way alternative of access to the marine one avoiding the passage in front of San Marco. The alternatives are theoretically more of and are to the sieve of the Magistrate to Waters of Venice. "It is from excluding - it has specified the Harbour Authority - the possibility to cover the entire Malamocco-Marghera channel in order to reach the Marine one through the Vittorio Emanuele channel since levels of congestion of the naval traffic would be generated legacy to the commercial and industrial portualità of Marghera, compromising some the survival as well as to create serious problems of safety and environmental risk in lagoon. The more rational hypothesis, today in advanced phase of study, is that of the deepening of the lagoon channel Contort-Sant'Angelo, than, leaving the Malamocco-Marghera channel before to reach the congested feature next the docks of Marghera Port, would reach the Marine one without to engage the channels of San Marco and the Giudecca. An participation - it has found the harbour agency - than very joins in a wider program than environmental recovery of the central lagoon that you would see the new surrounded channel from velme and reconstructed shoals with the digging materials".

An other solution consists in the creation of a "Venice Standard". "As well-drawn from I decree Clini-Passera - he has explained the Harbour Authority - Venice does not close the basin of San Marco and the channel of the Giudecca to all the cruise ships. The privilege to arrive to Venice from the sea passing in front of San Marco beneath remains alive in homage to the marine history of classified Venice but to the sun ships of the 40,000 tons of tonnage: a tonnage that, the experience standard, allows to maintain harmonious proportions with the historical atmosphere in which inserts". The Harbour Authority of Venice has specified that this is a message clearly to the industry of the cruises and that the agency is interested and ready "to collaborate with who intends to specialize in satisfying this new crocierismo of quality, putting on the exclusive privilege of the passage in front of San Marco only of ships more and more "green"".

Between the other solutions they figure the creation in Marine of a system of "cold ironing", that is of supply from earth of the energy to the ships to the berthing so as to make they to extinguish the engines during the pause with the elimination total of every the displacement and air pollution, of all the ferries (mixed ships cargo and passengers) from the berthing in Marine to a terminal dedicated to Fusina (Marghera) already beginning from 2013.