Confirmed the certification ISO 14001:2004 to the Harbour Authority of Venice



The society of classification and certification RINA has confirmed to the Harbour Authority of Venice the certification ISO 14001:2004 also for year 2013. Such distance is begun in 2010 and has involved the planning and the adoption of solutions apt to diminish the environmental impacts is of the harbour traffic (indirect) that those deriving from the management of the offices (directed) with a series of participations that are estimated positively by the certificatori. In particular, on the internal front, thanks to the activity of address of board management and in the collaboration of beyond 100 between dependent and collaborators, the Harbour Authority has succeeded to diminish own heating and power consumptions (), water and paper (this last one has recorded a reduction in the consumption pairs to 55% regarding 2011).

Between the actions times to the energetic sustainability the Harbour Authority also is engaged in the gradual substitution of the existing systems of lighting system with innovative systems and to the high energy efficiency that, using the technology to led, allows an energy saving until 70% and a reduction of the emissions of co2.

The Venetian harbour agency has announced that regarding the area of Marghera the initiatives of environmental reclamation are estimated positively (Montesyndial Area and former Alumix to Fusina), let alone the continuous and constant analyses and studies on the environmental impact that are realized by the Harbour Authority for all the projects in course with the objective to activate a constant monitoring of all the environmental impacts. Moreover, regarding the limitation of the impacts deriving from the harbour traffic, the agency has evidenced the importance of the voluntary Agreement "Blue Flags II" that for 2013 the use of fuels to low content of sulfur (0.1% has tax to the ships cruise in arrival to Venice respect to an European legislation that imposes uses it of 0.5% within 2020), let alone the structure of the controls to champion on fuels, realized with Harbour office and Agency of Customs, for all the ships in transit is commercial they that fleeting.
An agreement, that of the Venice Blue Flag, that it has allowed (given to Arpav september 2013) to diminish the emissions from "great ships cruise" of 60% PUBLIC PROSECUTOR and 96% SO2.