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Disaster in the port of Genoa caused from the collision of a ship against a pier
the incident has provoked three died and the wounding of four people, while others six turn out dispersed
May 8, 2013
A serious incident has happened this night in the port of Genoa. The ship for container and rotabili Jolly Nero of the company Ignazio Messina & Co., in departure to hours 23,30 yesterday directed to Naples and therefore towards the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, has hit the Giano pier provoking della Torre collapse Pilots. The incident has caused the military dead women of two of the Harbour office and an employee of the Body Pilots of the port of Genoa, the wounding of four people, while others six still turn out dispersed.
According to the first assessments, the collision of the poppiera part of the ship would have caused the yielding of the structure of the tower, high more than 50 meters and in which they were you anticipate the 13 people, than quickly it has strongly been tilted and therefore is collapsed. The investigations will have to ascertain because Jolly Nero has hit the pier, than are not place on the director of escape of the ship that has sailed from the Messina terminal in the Basin of Sampierdarena directed towards Bocca of East of the port of the capital of Liguria. The first hypotheses incline for a technical breakdown that would have been profitable unmanageable with-ro Jolly Nero, of 40.594 tons of tonnage, that it is long 239,3 meters and wide 30,5 meters.
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A serious incident has happened this night in the port of Genoa. The ship for container and rotabili Jolly Nero of the company Ignazio Messina & Co., in departure to hours 23,30 yesterday directed to Naples and therefore towards the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, has hit the Giano pier provoking della Torre collapse Pilots. The incident has caused the military dead women of two of the Harbour office and an employee of the Body Pilots of the port of Genoa, the wounding of four people, while others six still turn out dispersed.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
