Federation of the Sea, Assoporti and Federagenti exhorts the government to launch measures of urgency for the dredging in the ports



Today to Rome, near the center of the Confcommercio, Federation of the Sea, Assoporti and Federagenti they have signed an understanding protocol that engages the government to launch urgency measures in order to allow the dredging of the main Italian marine ports of call. The Federation of the Italian Marine System, the Association of the Italian Ports and the National Federation of Marine Marine and Mediating Raccomandatari Agents has evidenced as that of the dredgings in the ports is a national emergency: "the impossibility to regularly carry out the dredging of the grounds - they have remembered - is provoking the burial of beyond the half of the great Italian commercial ports. The consequences threaten to be disastrous are in terms of occupation, of generated wealth and jettison at sea for the state. Sedimentatesi norms in the overdimensioned years, environmental constraints, comparison of the detritus and sands on the grounds to the injurious refusals of earth and insertion of some between the main ports in the list of the Sind sites, entirely to clear, have provoked the stall of the dredging operations that in all the ports of the world are ruotine. For the greater ports of the Country, the disastrous consequences are species in a moment in which international the marine traffics and in the field container they not only see to assert itself I use intensive of ships of great dimensions that demand deep waters in order to enter and to operate in port".

Federation of the Sea, Assoporti and Federagenti has explained to have determined therefore "to enter the field in order to ignite the reflectors on the national emergency carries, before it is indeed too late" and have exhorted the government to face with urgency provisions the problem of the dredgings "putting in particular to point - they have specified - a uniform and transparent norm that is valid and applicable in all the ports of the Country and that it holds account of the enormous scientific progresses in the cataloging of the detritus, sands and the mud on the seabeds; from the other a riperimetrazione of the areas Until, the sites of national interest, that they would have, on the base of the administrative measures in existence, to be integrally cleared when instead practical solutions of safeguard of the atmosphere exist that allow with the ports to accommodate the ships".

Assoporti

Federation of the Sea

Federagenti


UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOL
HARBOUR DREDGINGS AND AREAS UNTIL
UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOL
HARBOUR DREDGINGS AND AREAS UNTIL

Considered that:

the ports, as recognized also in recent actions of the government, are a member essential in order to guarantee competitiveness to the entire Italian economic system;

a testified new knowledge from the plan of the logistics and the ports exists, about the necessity to remove the obstacles, normative, bureaucratic and operating that prevent a corrected operation of the ports and prevents the same ones to answer timely to the question of the market;

independently from the iter of reform, a real national emergency represented from the important burial exists marine ports of call of the country and therefore from an increase of the backdrops that directly affects the operativity of the mercantile traffics;

many ships and not only those giants of the last generation more do not succeed to enter in the ports, in order to avoid the risk to strand and to run aground;

the consequences are already and will be in penalizing way more and more the exclusion of the Italian ports from the main routes of world-wide the marine traffic with loss of job but also of jettison at sea for the State;

and that the cause than over is determined gives:

the impossibility, the difficulties and the constraints that limit and talora prevent the dredging are in the ordinary administration, are to greater reason for interventions extraordinary, become indispensable for example for the ports that operate in the market container;

a norm on the management of the material from incomplete and disorganica dredging, based on a merely precautionary approach that prescinds from the effective dangerousness of sediments;

the definition of beyond 50% of the national ports as sites of national interest (Until) and as such considered (without scientific new evidences and detailed verifications) highly polluted;

this involves it theoretically obligation of a total reclamation with indefensible costs and however never put into effect;

this involves the application of not coherent norms for res-use of the materials dug from the backdrops of the port;

The writing associations invite the government:

To proclaim relative a national emergency to the progressive closing of the ports.

To launch quickly from a valid for all the ports and not condizionabile uniform norm from the application choices of the single local governments.

To establish, on the base of the monitorings and the real verifications carried out of the materials on the backdrops of the ports inserted in areas Until, the criteria to the aim to circumscribe to the really polluted areas the work of reclamation and the constraints that derive some.

To set up a map of the priorities for the participations more urgent than dredging.

Rome, 19 February 2015