Christine Duffy (CLIA): "the crocieristica industry remains one of the surer recreational fields to the world"



Today to London the representatives of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), of the European Cruise Council (ETC) and of the Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) have participated to a press conference on marine safety to light of the shipwreck of last Saturday of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

Christine Duffy, president and managing director of the CLIA, have expressed its solidarity to the people involved in the tragedy of Costa Concordia: "I speak on behalf of the entire crocieristico field - it has declared - in expressing my felt condolences to the victims more. While we speak, teams of experts work on the place and the Italian authorities are carrying out formal investigations".

Christine Duffy has emphasized that in the crocieristico field the marine incidents are absolutely rare, that the field is subject to rigorous norms and that "the crocieristica industry remains one of the surer recreational fields to the world".

In course of encounter Christine Duffy has emphasized that it is still too soon in order to estimate which is the impact of the shipwreck of Costa Concordia on the activity of the crocieristiche companies, but has specified that the moment from the community of the travel agencies and the associates of the CLIA some news of a meaningful reduction of the activity has not reached.

Answering to a question on which they are the duties of the commander of the ship in case of shipwreck, vice admiral Alan Massey, former Second Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, has explained that "not there is some base in the international norms about the fact that the commander must sink with own ship or that she must be the last one to leave the ship. Sure - it has specified - in many cases these can not be the choices more adapted to assume".

Article 303 of the Navigation code Italian, relative to the desertion of a ship in danger, recites that "the commander cannot order the desertion of a ship in danger if after experiment without result of means suggested from the nautical art in order not to save it, felt the opinion of the officials of covered or, in lack, at least two between the most proficient members of the crew" and that "the commander must abandon the ship for last, supplying as possible to save the papers and the books of edge, and the valuables entrusted its guard".