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Agreement for the control of the emissions of the smoke of the ships in the port of
Protocol of understanding undersigned from Harbour office, Office of Customs and Harbour Authority
February 20, 2015
Today, with the subscription of the protocol of understanding between Harbour office, Office of Customs and Harbour Authority, today is perfected an agreement for the control of the sulfur tenor of fuel used from the ships in the port of. The increase of the crocieristici traffics and the dimensions of the portacontenitori ships has induced the Harbour office, of understanding with the Agency of Customs and the Harbour Authority, to verify, through analysis carried out near the Chemical Laboratory of Customs of Livorno, the quality of fuel used from the ships to the mooring that, based on the enforced norms, must have a not advanced sulfur tenor to 0.1% in mass.
"The which signed agreement today - the Commander of the Harbour office of has remembered, Enrico Castioni - anticipates of many months on a national level the application of a communitarian norm that will become obligatory from the next year. The Harbour office, institutionally called to carry out also environmental controls, has found in the Office of Customs and the referring attention and sensitive Harbour Authority respect to a issue that is a lot to heart of the community spezzina".
"We have joined very gladly to this protocol - the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri has declared - that places the attention on one of the topics legacies to the environmental sustainability of the sensitive activities of the port to which we are from always a lot attention and. It is the water monitoring and of the air carried out in collaboration with the agencies you premail, is the continuous search in order to obtain the best technological solutions that have as objective the mitigation of the impacts connected to the operativity of the port of call, constitute for our agency a constant engagement".
The director of the Office of Customs of, Elvio La Tassa, evidenced the positive synergy between the administrations of the State that - it has found - "consolidates the modus operandi that for a long time the Office of Customs sees, and the other organs engaged on the front of the activities of prevention, monitoring and repression of the illicit behaviors, upgrading the activity of risk analysis and control in the port of".
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Today, with the subscription of the protocol of understanding between Harbour office, Office of Customs and Harbour Authority, today is perfected an agreement for the control of the sulfur tenor of fuel used from the ships in the port of. The increase of the crocieristici traffics and the dimensions of the portacontenitori ships has induced the Harbour office, of understanding with the Agency of Customs and the Harbour Authority, to verify, through analysis carried out near the Chemical Laboratory of Customs of Livorno, the quality of fuel used from the ships to the mooring that, based on the enforced norms, must have a not advanced sulfur tenor to 0.1% in mass.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
