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ARPA Tuscany, yes to the transfer of the Concord to Genoa if before verification the availability of the port of Piombino
the new examination of the final destination - second the Agency - is necessary in order to ulteriorly reduce relative the environmental risks and of safety to the towing operations
June 26, 2014
If the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, is absolutely contrary to the transfer of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia from Isola del Giglio to the port of Genoa, preferring the approachable destination Piombino because in a single day of navigation regarding about five necessary ones in order to land to the capital of Liguria, the regional Agency for the environmental protection of Tuscany (ARPAT), than yesterday to the Conference of the services has voted in favor of the project introduced by Costa Crociere in order to carry the property left at death one of the ship to Genoa for its digestion, in the course of the reunion however has communicated "own discord regarding the followed method, as punctually the possible stiff alternatives are not verified to reduce the risks of the transport". The regional Agency has explained that, in consideration of the fact that "the president of the Conference of the services has asked the participants to express in way negative, positive, positive with prescription" and that "the question demands an answer "dries" on an only project that is for the transfer to Genoa, being the necessity to remove the ship in times breviums", has expressed to seem favorable before "on condition that the prescription and contained recommendations in the transmitted opinion are respected all on 24 June, between all, the verification of the availability of the port of Piombino to receive the property left at death one in consistent times with the operations of rigalleggiamento".
In particular ARPAT has evidenced that, taken note of the vulnerability conditions, regarding the conditions weather-navy, of the property left at death one equipped with the large chests, in the situation immediately before the rigalleggiamento, evidenced by Costa Crociere and of the expectable outage of the ports of Piombino and Civitavecchia to receive property left at death in the immediately following moment phase of rigalleggiamento, the Agency considers however that "if the date of beginning of the operations of refloating and the consequent operations of towing, were compatible with the full availability of the system of Piombino or Civitavecchia to receive the property left at death one, will be necessary to supply to the effettuazione of a new verification of the destination end, in order to ulteriorly reduce relative the environmental risks and of safety to the towing operations".
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