The Italian government has discussed emergency measures to ban large cruise ships from entering the Venetian lagoon, according to Reuters.
The Cabinet decided to act after UNESCO threatened to blacklist Italy for lack of such a ban.
Francesco Galietti, director of the International Cruise Association, said the group did not object if an alternative port was provided. Rome recently passed a law banning the mooring of large cruise ships in Venice, but an alternative port has never been built.
Residents of Venice staged a protest in June, when the 92,000-strong MSC orchestra, sailing to Croatia and Greece, moored in the museum city. For many years, they demanded that such ships be removed from the lagoon because they pollute and threaten the stability of suffering.
In April, the office of Prime Minister Mario Draghi passed a resolution to build a terminal outside the Venetian Lagoon to accommodate passenger and cargo ships with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. The proposal for its construction was published on June 29.
Meanwhile, large ships were ordered to stop at the industrial port of Marghera. However, this may not be the final solution, as the port does not have the appropriate conditions for mooring liners.