The mayor of Venice sharpens the weapons in sight of the encounter of thursday to Rome on the great ships in Laguna



The mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, sharpens the weapons in sight of the technical table of next thursday to Rome when, as established in the encounter last month between minister Lupi and the representatives of the Venetian and Venetian institutions ( on 13 June 2013), they will have to be introduced broken alternatives to that which currently the great ships cover in the Lagoon of Venice.

Approximating the appointment on 25 July, the mayor has reaffirmed with force its position, that is that these ships do not have to be approached Venice and that this must be tax with the application of interministerial decree that establishes limits to the transit of the ships near the protected areas and to the sensitive sites from the environmental point of view, provision that is introduced in the weeks after the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to Isola del Giglio. Yesterday, opening the reunion of the town council centralized on the solutions alternatives to the passage of the great ships in San Marco Basin and the Channel of the Giudecca, Orsoni has confirmed that "the debate on the passage of the great ships goes quickly faced, with urgency. And - it has added - with Venice urgency it asks the application for I decree Clini-Passera, asks that you respect a law of the State". Last night, to conclusion of the debate, the mayor has obtained from the town council the mandate to represent the municipal administration to the ministerial table.

In its Orsoni participation but essential resource has defended with force also the port of Venice which ". Trouble - it has emphasized Orsoni - if we thought of having to renounce to that the port, commercial and fleeting, offers to this city today. They are economic activities that are in our DNA and must reason of the way so that developments, in the more compatible way with the structure of our city. The compatibility - it has specified - is not only a problem of the citizens, but it is a problem that first of all regards the same operators of the port, its entrepreneurs. If they want to make indeed the entrepreneurs and to look ahead in the time, they cannot be arrest warrants, to head to a portualità that is centralized on the existing and not to look ahead, to that can be developed in the future. The problem is not to repair to a become situation indefensible, but to find of the solutions, also transitory or temporary, in the perspective of a compatible development with the city".

Remembering that this proposal took part of its electoral program on which the government majority has been constructed, Orsoni has restated the hypothesis to use Marghera Port for the fleeting development of the port, idea that however is not appreciate by the Venetian harbour community. "There - the mayor has said - already it is written all. From then we already had well in mind that the Marine one is a resource that will go to be exhausted and that the development of the future metropolitan area cannot that to centralize itself towards the mainland, towards Marghera Port. It is our conviction does not have necessarily to be abandoned the Marine one, that it goes taken advantage of for the investments that are made, but - it has added - the ships must arrive in a place where they can be received without to cause ulterior damages to the lagoon ecosystem".

According to the mayor, the access of the great ships "can happen through the Channel of the Oils, to go to Marghera, in places today dedicated to the portualità, not coming near to the harbour activities in being, without therefore carving them, and using the existing channels to arrive also in Marine without passing for San Marco, safeguarding also Marine the same one". Orsoni has found that "these possibilities are, goes explored, without to dig other new channels that presumablly could cause remarkable problems in hydraulics of the Lagoon. The digging of the Twisted Channel Sant'Angelo, in a future perspective - it has observed - is a work to lose, because if the development is towards Marghera Port, that channel would turn out useless".

"Even if with far perspectives of performance - it has continued Orsoni - all the proposals alternatives to the passage in Basin go however estimated seriously. We must with much serenity face these topics, but with the objective clearly of the safeguard of natural environment. We ask are of the not preconceived interlocuzioni. I will not never accept - it has specified - to sit me to a table with that it says me: "the Marine one is not touched and must arrive there to any cost". I am disposed to reason on any solution, provided that in front of me they sit down of the interlocutors or arranged to discuss with serious and sure data".

Orsoni has anticipated that will participate to the ministerial table of thursday to Rome "without wanting conflicts with the harbour entrepreneurship, neither with the occupation. The position of the Municipality of Venice - it has concluded - must be clear: we need a efficient port, that it looks to the future, with perspectives of serious development. The development of the port is a priority for this administration".