Incident in the port of Genoa. The Messina denunciation the lacked participation the two tugs



The shipowning group genoese Ignazio Messina & C. Spa has interrupted today cover-up up to now maintained after the collision of own Jolly Nero ship against a pier of the port of Genoa happened in the night between slid tuesdays and Wednesdays that it has determined della Torre collapse Pilots causing the dead women of seven people, four wounded and two dispersed. The Messina has explained that "that to shut up is not a strategy, is a precise and shared choice from all our group and our family: today our will and our feelings - it has emphasized the company - converge on the memory of the victims and the relatives to which we restate the senses of our total and sincere vicinity. Which part involved in the tragic incident, would be smart-mouthed also in confronts of the job of the authorities investigators who are carrying out the inquiries on how much happened to enter in the alive one of the public debate".

The shipowning company however has decided "to supply some elements of clarification on the topic of safety to protection also - it has evidenced Ignazio Messina - of our collaborators, hundred of people who every day work they also with dignity and pride for our group and share with we the same values and the same objectives".

The genoese society has specified in that conditions were happening the maneuver of Jolly Nero at the moment of the incident: "we confirm - the Messina has emphasized - than the maneuver it was being carried out in flood conditions and it completes safety: the conditions weather-navy were optimal, the pilot were regularly on board of the ship, the two tugs that our commander had decided to use regularly "was turned" (attacked) to the ship".

The shipowning company never wonders but as the two tugs for the Reunited Tugs Port for Genoa, the society of the group Reunited Tugs that work the services of harbor tug to Genoa, are not successful to avoid the impact of the ship against the Giano pier: "what we indeed do not succeed to accept - has accused the Messina - is that the two tugs, also granted that the car of the ship were firm in the phase of evolution, in those conditions optimal weather-navy, they have not been able to hold a ship average-sized, as Jolly Nero, far from the docks in so a wide watery mirror in which evoluiscono ships of very greater dimensions".

"Independently from those that they will be assessed as the concomitant causes of the event - it has emphasized moreover the Messina - our society, proud to beat from always Italian flag on all its ships and to believe still firmly in the composition of crews of Italian nationality, has invested very many in safety and in the formation subordinate as it is, among other things, to a series of controls that perhaps finds analogous single reply in the field of the civil aviation and that I found myself on various levels: administration of the State of flag with reference to safety of navigation, registry of classification (in our case the RINA) and various administrations regarding that of the State of flag when the ships land in the ports of States foreign countries".

The shipowning company has concluded specifying that the group "will be assumed, as always made, own responsibilities" and restating that "from the beginning it has put to complete disposition of the authorities investigators to the aim of an exaustive assessment of the truth".