Agreement Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia - ARPA Lazio for the monitoring of the quality of the air of the port



Yesterday the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta has undersigned an agreement picture with the ARPA Lazio for the monitoring of the quality of the air of the port of Civitavecchia and the bordering areas. The fixed document the procedures that the Regional Agency for the Environmental protection will apply in the port in order to monitor and to preview the quality of the air in the respect of the recent one I decree legislative 155/2010.

In specific the Harbour Authority it will finance the purchase and the installation in the port of call, second the indications supplied from ARPA Lazio, of a fixed station of survey that could be inserted in the system of monitoring of the Region Latium. The telephone exchange will be installed and managed by the same ARPA that will verify and control the data that will be consultabili on the site of the Harbour Authority inside of the Ambient section, 24 hours after their reception.

Moreover, for the first time in Italy, . The forecasts will hold account of the emissivi contributions of the ships, the carrier language traffic and more in general terms than all the traffics accommodated in a port.

"Draft - the president of the harbour agency has commented, Pasqualino Monti - of a convention with which the Harbour Authority it intends to place in being, together with the ARPA, all the initiatives times to safeguard the health and the atmosphere. As I have many times over restated this is a argument that me is particularly to heart from president and citizen of Civitavecchia: increase, atmosphere and sustainable development are between the main points which my mandate is inspired. We will not only monitor constantly the emissions of every genre in port, but quite we will be the first Italian port to realize of the forecasts a lot detailed on the quality of the air".

"I can assert with great satisfaction - the commissioner of the ARPA Lazio has declared, Corrado Carruba - than draft of a very meaningful and important action, that it confers to the port of Civitavecchia the necessary instruments for being able to control and to analyze the quality of the air so as to guarantee, to the port of call and the citizens, a constant monitoring to safeguard of the atmosphere".