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The crocieristica industry introduces a practice of obligatory emergency before the departure of the ships from the port
The new security measure is adopted voluntarily by the associates of CLIA, ETC and PSA
February 9, 2012
The three international associations of the crocieristico field Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), European Cruise Council (ETC) and Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) have announced today a new security measure that the effettuazione of a practice of obligatory emergency previews, with the convocation of the passengers to the collection points, before the departure from the port for the ships subject to international convention SOLAS for the safeguard of the human life in sea.
The three associations have explained that draft of a first measure of the political new of review of operating safety announced the course month from the crocieristica industry in response to the shipwreck of Costa Concordia and as part of the constant engagement of the field in order to reexamine and to improve the security measures.
The associations have specified that the new measure, that it is adopted voluntarily by the CLIA associates, ETC and PSA and are immediately effective, go beyond enforced the prescription of law as it on board previews the obligatory assembly of all the passengers before the departure from the port. In the rare occasions in which the passengers they get aboard after the practice has been capacity to term - they have specified the three associations - to these ready will be supplied individual instructions of safety or group that satisfies requirement of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).
CLIA, ETC and PSA have remembered that the assembly to the collection points is an obligatory practice carried out on all the cruise ships in order to guarantee that the passengers are informed of the procedures of desertion of a ship and that the current dispositions on the effettuazione of the practice, contained in convention SOLAS, returns it obligatory within 24 hours from the boarding of the passengers.
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The three international associations of the crocieristico field Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), European Cruise Council (ETC) and Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) have announced today a new security measure that the effettuazione of a practice of obligatory emergency previews, with the convocation of the passengers to the collection points, before the departure from the port for the ships subject to international convention SOLAS for the safeguard of the human life in sea.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
