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Cruise Lines International Association and European Cruise Council anticipate three new security measures
They are relative to the positioning of the life belts, the implantation of the heavy objects and to the operating procedures on the bridge
November 15, 2012
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the European Cruise Council (ETC), the two main shipowning associations of the crocieristico field, have announced today the adoption of three ulterior security measures for the cruise ships that on board regard the positioning of the life belts of ships of new construction, the mass in safety of heavy objects on board of the ships and the harmonization of the operating procedures that regulate the activity on the bridges of the ships. The two associations have emphasized that such measures go to beyond the current international normative requirement and are the result of the Cruise Industry Operational Safety Review who CLIA and ETC have launch last January as a result of the incident of Costa Concordia.
The new relative measure to the life belts previews that is that these, in equal or advanced number to that demanded from the international norms and that previewed from the State of flag, are placed in the ships of new construction near the muster station, to the points of collection of the passengers, or near the points of boarding on the lifeboats. In case of emergency, the members of the crew of the ship will be able so to have easy access to the life jackets in order to distribute them to the passengers.
The new measure Securing Heavy Object instead previews that the ships of the crocieristiche companies that are under responsibility of the CLIA and to the ETC have, in the within of their Safety System Management, of procedures in order to fix the heavy objects permanently, when not in use, or in the presence of bad conditions weather-navy, in order to avoid that the fall of objects as pianos, television-sets, moving sidewalk or other equipments can cause to damages or lesions.
At last the Harmonization measure of Procedures Bridge previews the harmonization of relative the operating procedures to the activities on the bridges of the ships of a single company or of the various crocieristici marks of a group. The measure has the scope to often return such procedures homogenous as the staff who work on the bridges works to spin on different ships.
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Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the European Cruise Council (ETC), the two main shipowning associations of the crocieristico field, have announced today the adoption of three ulterior security measures for the cruise ships that on board regard the positioning of the life belts of ships of new construction, the mass in safety of heavy objects on board of the ships and the harmonization of the operating procedures that regulate the activity on the bridges of the ships. The two associations have emphasized that such measures go to beyond the current international normative requirement and are the result of the Cruise Industry Operational Safety Review who CLIA and ETC have launch last January as a result of the incident of Costa Concordia.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
