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RINA Services anticipates a new package of voluntary norms on safety of the ferries
the first company to use the new package will be Grimaldi Lines on the ferry "Florencia"
May 28, 2015
RINA Services, the society of active Italian group RINA in the classification, test, inspection and services of certification, has announced the launch in the next few days of a new package of voluntary norms on safety of the ferries. Draft of the Integrity Asset Scheme Management, that it includes the appraisal and the reduction of the fire risk, an advanced system of management of the maintenance, the monitoring of the operation conditions, the management of the bacteriological risks (fundamental - it has emphasized the society - on the fleeting ships) and the reduction of the risks legacies to the damage of a single able member of inficiare the functionality of the ship. The company has specified that, date the importance of the human factor for the prevention of the risk and the good management of the emergency situations, the package for staff proposes moreover multiple specific activities of earth and edge formation.
The first company to use the new package will be Grimaldi Lines on the Florencia ferry, constructed in the 2003, able one to reach a speed of 22,5 knots and to transport some 1.000 people.
Currently, with a fleet in class of 300 ferries, RINA Services is world leader of the classification in this naval segment. "The supremacy that we have - has found general the Marine manager of RINA Services, Paolo Moretti - it offers the opportunity to us to deepen our acquaintances and to dawn giving origin to us constantly to a vituous cycle that is translate in an always better service for our customers. To be the class of election for means ro-pax has carried to develop a responsibility sense to us that pushes us to the continuous improvement of the standards and the Integrity Asset Scheme Management of is the test".
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