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Reduction of the -1,54% of the rates for the service of towing in the port of Genoa
New amounts in vigor for biennium 2016-17
December 28, 2015
The Harbour office of Genoa, with decree 401 22nd December, has determined a reduction of the -1,54% of the rates for the service of towing for biennium 2016-17 regarding the fixed amounts with decree 370 on December 18, 2013.
The Harbour-office has explained that such reduction, that will take effect from on January 1°, 2016, is returned feasible graces above all to the decrease of the cost of the fuel that has interested good part of 2015 and it attends remains stable also for the next year and to a more efficient organization of the service, that it has afforded to the concessionary society to obtain a saving on the operating costs.
"Thanks to such optimization of the towing service - it has specified admiral Giovanni Pettorino, commander of the Harbour office and extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Genoa - it has been possible to achieve the twofold objective to guarantee more and more high standards of safety of harbour navigation and quality of the service, above all regarding the ships of great dimensions that currently the port receives and of those which they attend in the near future, but also a reduction of the cost of the rates that, even though small, in any case is completely in controtendenza regarding renews tariff biennial precedence".
The Harbour-office has emphasized that the new decree "represents, therefore, an ulterior element that contributes to the maintenance of the competitiveness and the reliability of the port of Genoa and its technical-nautical services, true added value of the economy of an international port of call as that genoese one, than, together with the daily activity of regulation mails in being from the Marine Authority, in the interest of safety and the development, places the bases in order to at best face the challenges of the future".
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