The shipowning group Messina obtains the total certification atmosphere-safety



Ignazio Messina & C. Spa the certifications are the first equipped Italian shipowning group of a logistic system integrated to have achieved for all own activities Ambient 14001 ISO and Health and safety OHSA 18001, that they are released by the RINA.

The result, that it is introduced this morning in the center of the company to Genoa, arrives in the workplace to coronamento of iter a ten-year-old begun in 2001 with the obtaining of the first certification on the health and safety for the Terminal Nino Ronco, the operating base of the group in the port of the capital of Liguria. Such result - it has observed the managing director of the RINA, Ugo Salerno - reaches in a year, 2011, that it is important is for the Messina is for the RINA: the shipowning society celebrates its 150 years of activity and the society of classification the 90 years.

For the genoese company 2011 are important also because to year-end will take in delivery before the four new ships ro-ro container ordered to the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. ( on 16 December 2009). Others two unit will be taken in delivery in 2013 and last in February 2013. It is an investment that exceeds 300 million dollars.

Draft of four ships ordered in the more propitious moment, when the market of the new constructions offered the best conditions, has emphasized the managing director of the shipowning company, Stefano Messina. With these ships the group confides to satisfy the wait increase of the question that would have to happen in coincidence with theirs taken in delivery.

These are extremely difficult years for the economy and also the shipowning field does not escape to the crisis. Stefano Messina has anticipated that the group previews however to close budget 2010 with an increment of the transported volumes and the revenues. 2011 will be still an uncertainty year: "the markets - it has explained - still are burdened by volatility and an excess of ability".

Alle remarkable difficulties caused from the impact of the world-wide economic and finalcial crises join, for the shipowners, other insidie. One of these is piracy. A phenomenon in exceptional increase that, from alarming, has become a real emergency above all for the ships, as those of the Messina, that they journey to the wide one of the Somalia. We - the leaders of the group have explained "have regularly seven ships involved with a permanence in the area of numerous days".

According to the esteem of the group, in order to ask for the risk of the Messina attacks of the pirates last year has had to face puts up direct costs in order almost ten million euro. The situation in the region becomes more and more dangerous and the Messina has appreciated the new Shipping guideline of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), now favorable to the presence of military on board of the ships. Yesterday Cesar d' Amico, president of the Group Operatività Ship of the shipowning association, has sped up the possibility to equip the ships, at least on a voluntary basis, of armed staff of Marina Militare Italiana ( on 2 February 2011).

The presence of the soldiers on board of the ships, has confirmed the leaders of the Messina, would have a deterrent effect in confronts of the pirates and the cost of their employment, that it would be - has specified Stefano Messina - at the expense of the shipowners, would turn out however inferior to the greater costs supported currently from the shipowning companies because of piracy. According to the Messina, on the ships they could be boarded from two to five military ones.

If the genoese shipowning society is particularly sensitive to the problem of piracy, than threat directly the regions in which work, it are also towards the situation in Tunisia and Egypt, regularly scaled nations from the red ships of its fleet that in these days are jolt from a series of manifestations of protest and actions of revolt against the respective governments. States of crisis of this genre - it has emphasized the managing director of the company, Andrea Gais - determine the block of the economy of those Countries.