The new group of initiative Venice prompt Alive the removal of the great cruise ships from San Marco



Today Venice Alive, a group of initiative has been born, spreading and proposal on the issues of the development and the safeguard of Venice that, which first initiative, has promoted a petition turned to the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, so that the great cruise ships move away from San Marco.

Venice Alive has explained that the intention is to bring back to the real terms the problem of the removal of the great cruise ships from San Marco, to which the interdepartmental reunion of the 8 last August (Comitatone) has answered with of actions, between which the start of the procedures for the realization of a water way alternative in order to reach the Marine terminal of through the Twisted Channel S. Angel, describing the issue in all its complexity.

The members of the new group of initiative have emphasized that "via the ships from San Marco" it is "a engagement, a necessity, a obligation ethical. Venice - they have found - goes protected, as well as in its landscaped aspects, how much in those environmental, naturalistic and economic ones. The passage of the great ships in front of San Marco and through the Channel of the Giudecca is not more tolerable: he is fundamental to speed up and to already act without some demagogy covering the traced road, that is to start the procedures for the realization of a water way alternative in order to reach the terminal of Marine".

Evidencing that Venice is not a crocieristico port any, but home port (port terminus) of cruises of all the Mediterranean oriental, role that maintains thanks to the efficiency of the passenger terminal the Marine one, daughter of its location and of His Excellency in terms of accessibility (nautical, of passengers and of supplies), as well as of its praiseworthy operating systems and safety, VeniceAlive it has specified that the Marine Station is, today, the single place that can guarantee all this and that the Twisted Channel Sant'Angelo, that it will pass in the next few months for severeest iter than Appraisal of Environmental impact (VIA), is the more efficient, effective and fast solution in order to save Venice and its masterpieces, its lagoon, its workers, preserving the DNA of the city that has been born and weevers on the sea, thanks to the sea.

The members of Venice Alive and promoters of the petition are: Ugo Bergamo (former Mayor of Venice), Paolo Costa (former Mayor of Venice), Nereo Laroni (former Mayor of Venice), Mario Rigo (former Mayor of Venice), Agostino Cappelli (University IUAV of Venice), Cristiano Chiarot (supervisor Theatre the Fenice of Venice), Davide Croff (former president Biennial Fondazione of Venice), Caterina Frisone (University IUAV of Venice), Mara Manente (CISET - International Centre of Studies on the Tourism Economy), Giampietro Ravagnan (University House Foscari of Venice), Luigino Rossi (Italian president Comitato for the Safeguard of Venice and president Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice) and Jerome Francois Zieseniss (president Comitè Francais pour the Sauvegarde de Venise).

While, on the front of the goods, from yesterday the Agency of Customs it has authorized the experimental start of the procedure of clearance of the goods in sea for the ports of Venice and Trieste. "By september - Claudia Marcolin has confirmed general secretary Harbour Authority of Venice - the procedures for the experimentation of the clearance of the goods to sea are begun (preclearing) also for the port of Venice, a concrete saving of time that is attested around the 36 hours. Draft - it has emphasized - of an important turned out obtained thanks to the technological innovation and to the collaboration with the Agency of Customs, Harbour-office Port, Harbour and strongly intentional Authority the operators and that it affords to our port of being more competitive. We consider fundamental the job which got ahead from the Agency of Customs to the aim to obtain an always greater reduction of the station times of the goods in the Venetian port of call. The fact then that within the 2014 Harbour Authority the ban of contest for the informatizzazione will launch of crosses harbour will afford us to remain competitive and of being prepared for the resumption under commercial traffics (+1.6%) and manufacturers (28.4%) marked in the period January-July 2014".