Study of environmental monitoring on the impact of the crocieristico traffic to Savona



Costa Crociere has introduced today the results of a study of environmental monitoring of the quality of the air to Savona that is commissioned by the crocieristica company to SIGE, society leader in Italy in the field of engineering and environmental monitoring. The search, realized in the within of the understanding protocol that Costa Crociere, Municipality of Savona and Harbour Autorità of Savona last year have undersigned to November for sustainable development in the crocieristico field to Savona, is carried out between March and July 2015, one of the periods of greater presence of the ships, on an adjacent city area to the Palacrociere, the managed crocieristico terminal from the same Costa Crociere in the port of Savona.

"Online with the engagement that we have shared for a sustainable development to Savona - it has explained Stefania Lallai, director Sostenibilità and it reports external of Costa Crociere - we have voluntarily decided to make to realize a study that he supplied given you specify in the city on the generated environmental impact from our ships. The results of the monitoring are very comforting. Our engagement for the environmental protection - it has specified - however continues through many other projects, to begin from the two ships to LNG, the fossil fuel more cleaned the world, in delivery in 2019 and 2020, before which it will be placed to Savona".

Coast has emphasized that from the obtained results it turns out that the presence of ships of the company in port to Savona meaningfully does not affect the quality of the air of the city area adjacent with the Palacrociere and that the found values of polluting in the course of the monitoring have turned out always wide inferior to the values limit of the norm of reference for the quality of the air in the city takeovers (decree legislative 155/2010).

In the period of monitoring to Savona 89 ships are berthed Coast, with a particular concentration in the spring months, in which the ships they make I re-enter in the Mediterranean after to have operated during the winter in warmer destinations, that they have seen the contemporary presence to the Palacrociere also of three ships in the same day (5 April and 1° May). Inside of the monitoring area they are placed in different points, to various altitudes until 40 meters above sea level, a series of main instruments of survey of the polluting ones of the air: a cabin of continuous monitoring for the dioxide determination of sulfur (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and benzene, identical to those used habitually for the monitorings in the urbanized areas; a sequenziale sampler for the every day powder determination (particulate matter suspended total) and metals (nickel and vanadium); 13 samplers liabilities (radiello) always for dioxide of sulfur (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The obtained values have been moreover subordinates to validity through statistical tests in a position to correlating between various they the variable ones involved (direction, speed of the wind, presence ships and absence ships).

"I am satisfied - the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona has commented, Gian Luigi Miazza - for the job commissioned by Costa Crociere to the most quoted society between in the national panorama who affords us to photograph the current situation in punctual way and that it constitutes therefore a first documentation of state of health of the air. As already said in other occasions, we are convinced that working all entirety, everyone for its competence, we will be able to pick the shared objective to continue in the actions of continuous improvement of the environmental performances in the harbour activities".

"With respect to the presentation of the data on the quality of the air by Costa Crociere - the mayor of Savona has declared, Federico Berruti - I consider a positive fact that the company is sensitive to the demands for our community in topic of environmental controls. Naturally the investigations must be continuous and other monitorings will have to be put in existence, but while it is important to begin to acquire given".