About to resolution - the Province of Genoa signals - the problem of the noise produced to harbour terminal VTE



The Province of Genoa has announced that it is about to resolution the problem of the noise produced from the portacontainer and from the terminalistiche activities to the Voltri Terminal Europe (VTE) of the port of the capital of Liguria that has plagued for a sure period and that partially it continues to plague, but - it has communicated the agency - is about to solution, the inhabitants of the top of Pegli, in particular of the ways Laviosa and Scarpanto, than they appear on the sea towards West, that is Voltri.

The provincial agency has emphasized to have had an active part, together with the Harbour Authority and to the Harbour office, in resolving such problem: after rebelling of the marked problem some year it makes from the residents and "taken in cargo" from the genoese town hall West - Alberto Corradi has explained the provincial city council member to the environmental controls - they are carried out taken care of acoustic reliefs in all the interested zone; moreover already by years the adoption by the Harbour Authority of Genoa of a "energetic Plan of the port" is promoted, through the Muvita Foundation, that is first in Italy and that it previews between the other things the electrification of the docks, that is the equipment of the docks of systems of electric power supply of the ships that return the extinction of the engines of the floating ones possible, cause of the acoustic pollution (and thin powders). The plan - it has remembered - previews the electrification of the area of the so-called naval Repairs, the port oils of Multedo and also of the VTE of Voltri, participation that alone coast about 10 million euros. The noise of the ships to the mooring, in fact, is produced by the engines, that they are held constantly ignited for all the duration of the mooring to the aim of feeding all the internal machinery and, in cases of ships refrigerator, the holds refrigerator.

The surveys carried out to Pegli from the office noise of the Province, are in the long period, are in punctual way - the city council member has explained - have confirmed complained how much from the inhabitants: in the zone more to the west (via Laviosa) the noise to lowland arrives very hard frequency, 40-50 Hertz, of the engines of the ships to the mooring, in the east zone more (Castelluccio) is felt instead the thuds of the container put down to earth from the cranes and the hisses of the signalling sirens; at last in the intermediate zone both noises are felt, but in attenuated way. The noise of the engines is more hard how much the more salt up, for reasons of propagation of the sonorous waves. Al sea level is almost imperceptible. The noise more annoying because of being the by the noises of the automotive traffic, and its lowland frequency returns it noticeable also with the closed windows, therefore not only of summer but also of winter.

The city council member have announced that all the subjects auditi in the sitting yesterday of the fifth consiliare commission (Ambient, protection of the territory and health) have convent on the fact that the definitive solution of the problem will be exactly the electrification of the docks previewed from the harbour energetic plan. However an immediate solution of the problem, though temporary, already has arrived thanks to the collaboration of the Harbour office that it has carried out taken care of measurements on the ships (chargeed are two ships of the Maersk company that they have as fixed destination the VTE) discovering that all the four engines on board of the portacontainer do not have the same noisiness, even if they are identical: one of the four, in fact, for its position, produces less noise. The Harbour-office, therefore, has asked Maersk to hold only ignited the less noisy engine during the mooring.