Usclac-Uncdim, solo after the conclusion of the investigations will be able to be judged the acts of commander Schettino



That the commanders of ship expert of are varied matters and disciplines unless of public relations and communication is of all evidence for operators of prints that they have relationships with their professional category. That the news of marine disasters from the international resonance provokes the interest of reporters who very rarely or never take care of shipping is equally obvious to who it attends the world of the journalism.

Two categories in occasion of a serious incident mixed these as that of the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship happened in the night between the 13 and 14 January to Isola del Giglio and the turning out mixture is explosive. It has not been reached the deflagration this morning to the press conference dedicated to the disaster indetta from unions U.S.C.L.A.C. /U.N.C.Di.M. (Trade-union Union Captains of Along National Corso al Comando /Unione Captains and Chief engineers), but is ended wall against wall: from a part those who seemed to with maximum strength defend and against every evidence the acts of the commander of Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino; from the other those which seemed to charge the interlocutors to defend an indefendible position.

Impossible to move steps ahead when the crash becomes war of position.

The representatives of the unions have defended the professional credibility of General staff of Marina Mercantile Italiana and the seriousness of the shipowning company Costa Crociere and have sped up print to attend the outcomes of the inquiries in course. Inevitable but - also for they - not to return notes some personal opinions on the disaster.

According to the president of the Usclac-Uncdim union, Antonino Nobile, has been "excellent" the maneuver of support of the ship to the reef that Skate would have completed after the collision on the backdrop that has provoked the wide leak in the hull. "A most valid maneuver of spiaggiamento", it has agreed the councilman of the Union, Pietro Gardella, that it has accused the commander of the Harbour office of Livorno, Gregorio De Falco, by him defined "a megalomaniac affection from protagonismo and exhibitionism", to have given in the conversation with commander Schettino, happened when the ship already was sunk and tilted on the diffused reef and from the mass media of all the world, dispositions "cervellotiche and impassable" intimandogli to go back on the ship being used the only biscaggina, from which the passengers were coming down, and ordering to it to communicate the number and the state of the people still you anticipate to edge, unattainable task - Gardella has explained - in consideration of the state of the ship and the necessity to evacuate the castaways. Operation this last one - they have emphasized the representatives of Usclac-Uncdim - than has been carried out among other things in fast times in consideration of the difficulties caused from the inclination of the ship and the elevated number of people to carry in salvo.

Also restating the reliability of the acts of Costa Crociere, the representatives of Usclac-Uncdim however have expressed perplexity on the decision of the company to suspend the commander of Costa Concordia. Nobleman has emphasized that the commander of a ship cannot be suspended if not as a result of a definitive sentence that sentence its acts, as she establishes - she has specified - article 56 of National Collective Contratto of Job for the captain and master mariners of car that - we remember - defines connected the liability and/or penal to the performance and sanctions that: "1 - Every liability towards third party for facts store clerks from the commander or the chief engineer in the exercise of its functions is at the expense of the shipowner; 2 - Where penal procedure is opened in confronts of the commander or chief engineer for facts that directly are connected to the exercise of its functions, every expense for all the degrees of judgment is at the expense of the shipowner; 3 - It is faculty of the commander or chief engineer to make oneself to assist from a lawyer of confidence of the chosen shipowner from the commander or chief engineer between two nominative cases indicated from the shipowner, with burden at the expense of this last one; 4 - the deferment of verdict for facts directly relating to the exercise of its functions can constitute justified reason of cessation of the continuity of the job relationship, if the gravity of the event can influence on the fiduciary relationship; 5 - the guarantees and the protections of which to the paragraph 2) of article anticipates successively apply also to the extinction of the job relationship, sempreché features of facts happened in the course of the same relationship; the 6 - guarantees and the protections of which to the paragraphs precedence is excluded in the serious guilt or fraud cases of, assessed with sentence".

If today steps are ahead not completed in the relationships between the category of the commanders of Marina Mercantile and the category of prints, yesterday instead neither it is completed by the associations of the consumers and Costa Crociere who, near the ASTOI center Confindustria Travels, have reached an agreement on the compensations to the involved passengers in the shipwreck of Costa Concordia.

The agreement previews a flat-rate amount of euro 11,000 to indemnification person for a reason or purpose, to cover of all endured the patrimonial and not patrimonial damages, included those legacies to the loss of the baggage and the belongings, to the suffered psychological uneasiness and the damage from ruined vacation there. Such engagement is not directed to the families of the deceased passengers or disappeared and the passengers who quickly have lesions that have involved shelter hospital worker, whose compensations will be dealt in independent way. Moreover the integral reimbursement of the value of the cruise, comprehensive of the harbour taxes is previewed; the reimbursement of the transfers airplane and buses, included in the practical cruise; the reimbursement total of the supported expenses of travel for I re-enter; the reimbursement of eventual supported medical expenses; the reimbursement of the expenses supported during the cruise.

Costa Crociere has specified that the agreed flat-rate amount for a reason or purpose of compensation is advanced to the previewed risarcitori limits from the international conventions and the enforced laws and that such amount will be recognized independently by the age of the passenger, having considered also the children, although not paid. Moreover Coast has been engaged not to deduce from such figure how much eventually perceived from the customers for insurance reimbursements legacies to individually stipulated policies.

Between the other points of the agreement, Costa Crociere has moreover accepted to start a specific program of psychological assistance regarding all the passengers whom of it they make demanded. Moreover he is convene that the company offers the opportunity to cancel without penitentiaries the cruises reserved before the dramatic event, on all own routes, within on 7 February.

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