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June 27, 2022
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- Thamm (Costa) and Vago (MSC) reassure VTP employees
on the intention to support the relaunch of cruises in Venice
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- Expressed the hope that Marghera can soon become a
valid and viable solution also in the long term for the
landings of white ships
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 Today the CEO of the Costa group and Carnival Asia,
Michael Thamm, and the Executive Chairman of the Cruises Division
of the MSC group, Pierfrancesco Vago, met the employees of
Venice Passenger Terminal (VTP) with the purpose of confirming,
together with Fabrizio Spagna, president of VTP, the commitment of the two
cruise lines, as main customers
of the terminal structure, regarding the future of the airport
Venetian and reiterate the determination to support and relaunch
Venice as an important "home port" of cruises,
port from which the ships of the two companies departed after the
Covid break and in which - assured the representatives of the
two companies - continue to operate, despite the difficulties,
with positive repercussions on cruise traffic of the entire
Adriatic.-
- Noting that the government's decision to close access
of the great cruise ships at the Maritime Station of Venice
managed by VTP, ban imposed in mid-2021 without having first
prepared an alternative solution
(
deel 13
July 2021), forced cruise lines, the
employees of the terminal and the entire cruise industry in Venice
to organizational and economic sacrifices of considerable proportions,
Thamm and Vago have however expressed appreciation for both the
efforts by the authorities to find a solution of
long term to the problem of cruises in Venice that for the commitment
profuse by the president of the Port System Authority of the
Northern Adriatic Sea, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, to equip
in the shortest possible time for this traffic some
docks in the commercial port of Marghera.-
- Expressing the hope that Marghera, where recently is
the quay was inaugurated to receive cruise ships that
cannot reach the Maritime Station of Venice
(
of 6
April 2022), may soon become a valid solution and
practicable even in the long run, Thamm and Vado have specified the
two companies will continue to urge the government about a
greater attention on the need to equip the port with
Venice of further and adequate docks in Marghera. Only in this
so, according to the two companies, the
stable return of more ships and passengers, with
the objective of ensuring long-term planning on
Venice, with very positive repercussions on cruise traffic
of the entire Adriatic as Venice plays a central role
as a reference hub for the whole area that today, precisely because
of a reduced capacity of the lagoon port and its
crucial "home port" function, experiences a slowdown
compared for example to the robust restart that took place in the
Western Mediterranean.
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