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the port of Venice leads the way in the regulation of the type of marine fuel
Today in all the Italian harbour ports of call have taken effect the provision that fixed new limits and imposes to the ships the fuel use to low sulfur content
August 27, 2014
The port of Venice leads the way in the field of the regulation of the fuel type used from the ships that they land to the port of call. It has emphasized the Harbour Authority of the lagoon port in occasion of the today's effectiveness of the new limits that impose to the ships the fuel use green to low sulfur content as a result of the publication in the "Gazette" 12th August of I decree legislative 112 on June 16, 2014 of performance of the directive 2012/33/UE that modification relative directive 1999/32/CE to the sulfur tenor of fuel for marine use.
The provision establishes that "for the fleeting ships clappers Italian flag, which carries out service of a coming from or directed line to a port of a Country of the European Union, are prohibited, in territorial waters, in the Exclusive Economic Zones and in the ecological security zones, pertaining to Italy, I use it of fuel for marine use with a advanced sulfur tenor to 1.50% in mass. The violation of the prohibition is asserted also regarding the ships not clappers Italian flag and that they are found in an Italian port". Such limit will be condescended to 0.50% in mass from on January 1°, 2020.
"The port of Venice, thanks to the voluntary agreement Blue Flags II - it has remembered the Venetian harbour agency - in the course of season 2013 already imposes to all the ships that in transit arrive to Venice the fuel use to 0.1% of sulfur for all the ships (beginning from out of the mouth of Port of Lido) and for all the duration of the mooring. Normative tightening - it has emphasized the authority - valid for the single lagoon port that anticipates and exceeds the limits European (and also now Italian) imposing the super fuel use green. The controls, as moreover previewed from I decree legislative - it has specified the agency - are carried out by the Harbour office with punctual verifications to champion".
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The port of Venice leads the way in the field of the regulation of the fuel type used from the ships that they land to the port of call. It has emphasized the Harbour Authority of the lagoon port in occasion of the today's effectiveness of the new limits that impose to the ships the fuel use green to low sulfur content as a result of the publication in the "Gazette" 12th August of I decree legislative 112 on June 16, 2014 of performance of the directive 2012/33/UE that modification relative directive 1999/32/CE to the sulfur tenor of fuel for marine use.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
