Within year-end the results of the experimental program of monitoring of the emissions of the ferries



It is continuing the program of monitoring of the emissions of the ferries on the route Genoa - Palermo - Genoa that is started in 2014 by the Harbour office of Genoa and the Regional Agency for the Protection of the From Liguria Atmosphere (Arpal) with the collaboration of the company of Great navigation Navi Veloci (GNV), program that has been translate in a punctual analysis of the emissions. On the Arrogant one, the ship of GNV employed on the route, has been boarded a team of Arpal and Harbour office that has practiced a bocchello of sampling on the funnel of a engine of the ferry and has continuously carried out measurements, powder samplings and other necessary surveys to having a panoramic one complete of data are during the phase of maneuver in port are during all navigation. The searched parameters have been some of the polluting ones of the air, which powders sulfur totals, oxides and nitrogen, carbon monoxide and organic carbon total.

Rossella D' Acqui, scientific director Arpal, have illustrated the objectives of the program: "the topic of the contribution of the ferries to the atmospheric pollution - it has observed - particularly is felt in the coastal towns. Unfortunately they lack in literature given experimental. As agency for the atmosphere, in collaboration with the Harbour office and thanks to the availability of some companies of navigation, between which own GNV, than has been demonstrated particularly sensitive on the topic, has undertaken this new activity in order to try to overwhelm such gap. The potentialities of a similar job are theoretically infinite. We have in program - it has announced Of Acqui - other measures to spring, for still giving consistency to the up to now collected data and in elaboration. We will in June make a first participation in a convention and within the turn of the year we will introduce to Genoa all the carried out job".

The president and Large managing director of the Navi Veloci, Roberto Martinoli, have explained the involvement of GNV in the initiative: "our company - it has emphasized - is from always much careful one to the environmental impact and the energy saving of own fleet, between young of the Mediterranean. We have quickly given our availability to collaborate with Harbour office and Arpal to this project, that it re-enters in our will to adopt solutions times to energy efficiency, than is translate in a reduction of costs and emissions".