On 12 November the prohibition of navigation to two miles from the Tuscan coasts will take effect



Next 12 November will take effect the prohibition of navigation to two miles from the Tuscan coasts, as established from the decrees signed today for the marine arrondissements of Piombino, Santo Stefano Port, Portoferraio and Livorno in occasion of the subscription of the agreement for the installation of four new radars which signed from Tuscany Region, Body of the Harbours-office of Port-Guard Costiera and Comuni of Livorno, Piombino and Monte Argentario.

Draft - it has emphasized the president of the Tuscany Region, Enrico Rossi - of a step in more to advantage of safety in auspicious sea since the following day the incident of the Costa Concordia and to which since then the interested agencies have worked with determination. Objective that also admiral Pierluigi Cacioppo, general commander of the Body of the Harbour offices, has recognized I yield of a profitable collaboration that moreover now will continue with the signature of new conventions, in order to improve and to perfect safety, above all in the more sensitive areas of the Tuscany coast.

Rossi and rear admiral Ilarione of Anna, commander of the Harbour office of Livorno, have specified that the prohibition of navigation to two miles from the coast will presee naturally of the exceptions whereby is the ports, but will be diffused in way capillary and brought back faithfully on all the charts.

The Tuscany Region has specified moreover that these decrees of prohibition make keep on last March "decree-breaking" signed from ministers Corrado Clini and Corrado Passera also on demanded fort of the regional agency. I decree, based on the tonnage of the ships, fixed limits to the transit near national the protected areas and to particularly sensitive sites from the environmental point of view as the Sanctuary of the Cetaceans and the lagoon of Venice. Besides the shipwreck 13th January of the Costa Concordia cruise ship on the stumbling blocks of Isola del Giglio, the remembered Region other recent marine incidents been necessary in front of the Tuscan coasts, as that on December 17, 2011 when the motor-ship Eurocargo Venice of the Grimaldi society has lost in the sea of the Gorgona 198 containing drums industrial catalysts exhausted and that 1°th june when the motor-ship Panamanian clapper flag Merse II, charge of iron round bars, have stranded on the stumbling blocks to south of Rio Marina.

In order to today tackle to these emergencies the Tuscany Region, the Body of the Harbours-office of Port-Guard Costiera and the Municipalities of Livorno, Piombino and Monte Argentario have undersigned an agreement that previews the installation of four new radars to completion of the servicings to marine traffic (VTS) and activity of surveillance and monitoring, to which they are called to participate also the LaMMA consortium, for the supply of meteorological and oceanographic data, and the regional Agency for the environmental protection of the Tuscany (Arpat), in case of events that involve impacts on the atmosphere.

The new radars will be installed in resort Island of Gorgona and Dock oils of the port of Livorno (Common of Livorno), in Poggio resort Battery, the municipality of Piombino and near the site of the Air Force in the municipality of Monte Argentario.

The which signed protocol today starts also a collaboration (that it will be realized in concrete terms on the base of next conventions) in order to integrate the activities of monitoring of the marine traffic and control of eventual sversamenti in sea of polluting substances, in order to strengthen the sea and air surveillance and to improve the ability to measure and to preview physical, biological and ecotossicologiche dynamics of the marine atmosphere. All with the objective to elevate the levels of safety, obtaining a reduction consisting of the risk of new incidents, and to optimize the answer in case of incident or dangerous situations.

With the protocol the Body Harbours-office of Port-Guard Costiera is engaged to complete the installation of the radars and all the equipments necessary hardware and software, and to strengthen the sea and air surveillance. The Tuscany Region will coordinate the competent subjects to the release of the authorizations and will assure the collaboration of Arpat and LaMMA to the program of the activities. Own the LaMMa, among other things, is installing in these days a marine radar always in x band (as i VTS) near the island of the Lily for the monitoring of the currents and the waves to support of the operations of removal of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia.

The undersecretary of Infrastructures and you transport, Guido Improta, has evidenced as the decrees and the subscription of the agreement are reason of pride and an important result also for the good economy of the sea, that it wants effective models of management in order to be always greater source of resources.