Green light of the Tuscany Region to Flat anniversary 2012 of the new Regional Harbour Authority



The commission Transports of the regional council of the Tuscany has expressed to majority the obligatory opinion on the addresses for the elaboration of Flat anniversary 2012 of the activities of the new Regional Harbour Authority, whose creation is deliberated in the past few months by the regional agency ( on 24 April and 17 May 2012). The Flat anniversary characterizes the priorities of participation for the ports of Viareggio, Santo Stefano Port, Lily and Navy of Field, territories of competence of the Port Authority new.

In the course of the debate in council the regional city council member to the Transports, Luca Ceccobao, has remembered that the full operativity of the Regional Harbour Authority will be possible single with the constitution of the organs - that is the nomination of the general secretary, the creation of the four harbour committees, the college of the revisers of the accounts - and that until they will not come true this condizionile competences they will remain as expected therefore to the Municipalities from the law in regime of prorogatio.

The activity of programming of the new Authority previews numerous participations between which, in particular, the realization of the new commercial dock to Viareggio, the editing of the new harbour town development plan naval of Field, the requalification of the beach of the Marinella for the port of Santo Stefano, the maintenance of the equipments and the harbour systems to Isola del Giglio.

While yesterday a session of the advisory committee for the next emergency to the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, happened at the beginning of this year to Isola del Giglio has been carried out, with the objective to make the point on the activities in course for the removal of the property left at death one. The Region, that it takes part of the committee, has announced that, regarding the term of the mass in safety of the ship initially previewed in order on August 31, 2012, the technicians have estimated of being able to complete the October work by the end of the month, except ulterior unexpected. This delay regarding crono the initial program - it is emphasized - has had to various factors: adverse the meteorological conditions of the last weeks, the presence of strong irregularities of the superficial layers of the granite of the seabed and of cracking in the below cliff, the unexpected cliff amount to level for being able to place the bases. Until now - it is specified - the constant surveys carried out from the Department of Sciences of the Earth of the University of Florence do not have however marked some anomaly in the movements of the property left at death one.

The project of stabilization of the ship, studied in order to avoid eventual skiddings of the property left at death one in the course of the winter season, previews the installation of a system of deduction constituted from four bases berthed to the backdrop side earth (two of which they would have to be completed in the next few days); to these 16 are coupled altogether serve of steel wire ropes connected to strengths knit on the part emerged of the property left at death one, tensionati through of the hydraulic rams.

The activities for the completion of the system of tensionamento proceed while that will afford rearranges vertical of Costa Concordia, those for the construction of the false backdrop and the six submarine platforms on which the property left at death one will bear away, besides the production of the large chests from which the water line will depend.

The regional agency has evidenced that it remains, however, the engagement of the Titan-Micoperi consortium, shared with Costa Crociere and the advisory committee, to pursue every useful solution in order to reduce the times, maintaining safety of the work, the safeguard of the atmosphere and the associate-economic life of the island.