Indignation of Bimco, ICS, Intercargo, Intertanko and ITF for the murder cold-bloodedly of a marine one by the pirates



Today to Rome, near the Shipping center of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), a round table has carried out itself on the topic "Men and technologies in order to defeat the pirates in organized sea" from Istituto Italiano di Navigazione (IIN) with the objective to not only draw the attention on the phenomenon of marine piracy, in obvious threatening expansion in the Indian Ocean and adjacent waters the Horn of Africa, but also in other geographic areas, that the world-wide economy hits strategic interests for all.

Attention that is attracted, unfortunately, from a new dramatic event: the murder cold-bloodedly of marine of the Beluga a Nomination by pirates multipurpose somalis who had assaulted and seized the ship 22nd January in the Indian Ocean, 390 miles nautical to north of the Seychelles. Three marine ones of the ship were taken hostage as retaliation against an attempt of Guard Costiera of the Seychelles to free the crew that had provoked the dead women of a pirate.

The organizations of the marine field Bimco, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Intercargo, Intertanko and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have manifested their indignation for such feracious execution and their solidarity in confronts of the marine ones involved and their families.

The five organizations have expressed also their worry provoked from the news second which the pirates have tortured the marine ones are physically that mentally using methods Barbarians as that to headfirst hang them along the flank of the ship using ropes tightened around their ankles and dipping their head underwater or also subjecting them to the awful practice of the keel turn.

Condemning firmly these acts of violence Bimco, ICS, Intercargo, Intertanko and ITF they have newly sped up with force the governments to upgrade their naval forces and to adopt a determined and fast action against the pirates and the ships under their control, in order to avoid that the ships in transit are boarded and seized.

"These last actions particularly atrocious - they have emphasized the five organizations - seem to clearly represent a change in the behavior of the pirates somalis. The murder cold-bloodedly of a marine innocent does so as that the shipowners and their crews will revalue the their current determination to guarantee that remains open this vital route of traffic through the Gulf of Aden and Mare Arabico, where pass beyond 40% of world-wide the marine hydrocarbon transport. The industry of the shipping will examine all the possible options, included the routes alternatives, that they could have a dramatic effect on the costs and the times of the transport. Esteem that piracy costs already to the total economy between the seven and 12 billion dollars per year".

In the course of the today's round table to Roma Stefano Zunarelli, marittimista lawyer and university professor by right of navigation to Bologna, the title of such legitimacy in the Armed Forces has been stopped on the problem of legitimacy of the use of the force, emphasizing and also the possibility that civil organizations of safety can use the force within limits legally previewed. Professor Zunarelli has but evidenced that the opportunity of such use must be carefully estimated some univocity of thought in such sense exists.

Admiral Fabio Caffio of General staff Marina Militare Italiana has illustrated all the put military operations in field from Marina in national and multilateral within and has been profitable notices the terms of the cured operating project from the General staff who on board previews the boarding of military of the Italian ships.

The managing director of Friendly Society of Spa Navigation, Cesar d' Amico, that he is president of the Group Operatività Ship of Confitarma, after to have reported of the course of attacks today to the Italian fleet from 2005 and after to have introduced all the put initiatives in existence up to now in order to contrast the phenomenon, has launch a fort appeal so that the possibility is still not lingered in taking in concrete consideration to equip the Italian cargo vessels, at least on a voluntary basis, of armed staff of Marina Militare Italiana. "We must it - it has explained - to our crews that, in order to assure the flows of strategic refuelings to the Country, besides must be moved away over a long time span from their families, in this situation they risk very personally also".

The SELEX managing director Integrated Systems, Marina Grossi, has illustrated the contribution that its company can carry to the fight to piracy and the safeguard of the life of the crews, contribution - he has specified - than "does not regard only the technology and the produced ones to state of the art, but above all a sistemistica vision for the solution to the problem".