Venice Cruise Ship Ban

From today cruise ships over 25000 tonnes will be banned from Venices central canal.

Venice cruise ship ban. Marks Square in Venice Italy. On Wednesday Financial Times reported that cruise ships would be diverted away from Venice city center. The reputable newspaper cited Italian minister of transportation Danilo Toninelli stating that this measure would be taken to to avoid.

The Italian government announced that large cruise ships will be banned from entering the Venice lagoon. The Venice cruise ship ban will see all cruise traffic diverted from the Venice city centre to Marghera a mainland industrial port nearby. It is a permanent ban unlike the temporary halts that the Italian government had previously introduced in recent years.

Venice will no longer allow large cruise ships from entering the Basin of San Marco the Canal of San Marco and the Giudecca Canal. Now cruise ships will be banned from sailing. This week the Council of Ministers.

Then it became a pre-ban for an uncertain date in the future. But the move is a largely controversial one. Environmentalists and cultural heritage activists have long sought to limit the number of vessels travelling through the Italian.

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July 14 2021 613 AM PDT By Claudio Lavanga and Yuliya Talmazan ROME Italy on Tuesday banned big cruise ships from sailing into Venice. On March 31 the Italian government issued a. Earlier this year in April the Italian city of Venice announced a ban on large cruise and container ships from entering the Giudecca canal which leads into the city centre and most notably the historic St Marks Square.