Draghi government imposes stop to large ships in Venice lagoon

With a decree-law passed in the evening of March 31, the Draghi government effectively imposes a stop to large ships in the Venice lagoon. In fact, the Council of Ministers, at the proposal of President Mario Draghi, Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility Minister Enrico Giovannini and Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, approved a decree-law that introduces urgent provisions on transport and for the regulation of cruise traffic in the Venice lagoon.

The measure was taken, the government says, to balance the needs for the protection of the artistic, cultural and environmental heritage of Venice and those related to the conduct of cruise activity and cargo traffic: the decree that ships will dock at a new landing place specially built outside the lagoon, and consequently provides for the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority to hold a competition of ideas aimed at collecting proposals and projects of technical and economic feasibility for the construction of docking points that can be used by ships carrying passengers over 40,000 tons and by container ships used for transoceanic transport.

“A right decision and one that has been awaited for years,” comments Minister Franceschini. “The Council of Ministers approves a decree-law establishing that the final landing of the Great Ships in Venice will have to be designed and built outside the lagoon, as requested by UNESCO.”

Draghi government imposes stop to large ships in Venice lagoon

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