The dredging with micro loaded in the port with Genoa will continue with "the flown" technique of



The participations of dredging with micro loaded explosive in the port with Genoa will continue with "the flown" technique of the so-called one, that it is authorized by the provincial technical commission for the matters exploding under the guide of the Prefecture. The approval is received with satisfaction from the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, that it has remembered as the agency had demanded for a long time the employment of such technique.

"The advantage of the flown ones - it has explained Merlon - is represented by the fact that could carry at the same time to a drastic reduction of the number of the explosions and to the reduction of the total duration of the dredging regarding that previewed with the current technique. This would have to determine moreover a meaningful reorganization of the uneasiness denounced from the citizens".

Merlon has remembered moreover that, in order to answer to the protests of the citizens of the historical center who complain producing itself of leaks in the buildings because of the explosions, it had made to reduce the power of the explosions and blocked the night operations even though authorized persons, also involving all these operating variations and lengthening of the times.

The president of the Harbour Authority has emphasized that the participation of dredging in the area of the basin of the historical port "is returned necessary by the greater dimension of the ships that are scaling already now the port of Genoa. If our port, in controtendenza regarding the national panorama - it has found - this year has considerably increased own activity in the first seven months of the year, reaching numbers record in spite of the heaviest crisis, it must also to the fact that the dredging work allows to be competitive and to the height of the necessities of the market". "Unfortunately in that area - he has explained Merlon - instead of sandy and silty material it is present cliff that can be only removed with it I use micro of the loaded ones. To delay this activity or still worse not to complete it would mean lose competitiveness immediately, to put to serious risk our terminals, the dry docks, their workers and those of the Only Company and the induced one to advantage of other above all foreign ports".

"As president of the harbour Autorità', than memory to be a public body and that therefore it pursues public purposes - has concluded Merlon - I have the duty to guarantee the operation of the port in existence putting all the necessary initiatives to its operativity and its development, I intend to continue it to make without to renounce to I confront positive and constructive with the city that I find absolutely indispensable".