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the port of Genoa is being prepared for the effectiveness of the norms on the certifyd weighing of the container
The location of external points of weighing to the harbour perimeter and the city context is previewed
May 18, 2016
The port of Genoa is preparing for the effectiveness the next 1° July of the new international norms on the weighing certifyd of the destined containers to the boarding, that they are introduced with relative amendments to Solas convention to safety of navigation in sea and the portacontainer, managing of the external points of weighing to the harbour perimeter and the genoese city context, placed along the guiding ones of traffic towards the port. In these points it will have to be supplied to the pre-emptive certification of the weight of the goods at the beginning to embark second the emanated technical discipline of this month from the General Command of the Harbour offices ( on 6 May 2016).
The Harbour Authority of Genoa has remembered that the port of the capital of Liguria daily is interested most important flows of heavy traffic, pairs to beyond four thousand truck engaged in the shunting of the containers distributed homogenous between the harbour basin of Prà and that of Sampierdarena. He is therefore obvious - it has emphasized the agency - the attention with which the consequent participations to the new international norms are being programmed on the certifyd weighing of the containers, this in the foundation that - except occasional situations - procedures of weighing carried out at the moment of the income or inside of the port produce to an excessive inevitable expansion of the times of the total harbour operations conditioning the level of efficiency and currently assured sustainability. In the same way - it has specified the agency - he is unthinkable to in the city imagine an increase in weight of the circulation of means. Therefore it has been considered preferable identify points of weighing of "frame" you mail outside from the harbour perimeter and the city.
The harbour authority has specified that all the operators involved, through their associations of reference, are programming the organization of appropriate spaces to assign to such scope and that great attention is being dedicated to the informative instruments to use in order to approaching assure to the traffic to the port deprived of the relative information to the weight a corrected reservation and routing to the weighing operations let alone pre-emptive an informative one to the terminals and to crosses harbour of the outcomes of such operations.
The Harbour Authority has specified that it is also in program a recognition of the operators whom, always to out of the harbour spaces, they carry out or they intend to carry out services of certifyd weighing so as to insert them in the organizational and informative net of reference for the port of Genoa.
"Thanks to the action of the General Command of the Harbour offices, that it has assured a transient period of flexibility - has evidenced admiral Giovanni Pettorino, commander of the port and commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Genoa - we will be able to Genoa to characterize best covered the possible one to go to the more effective solution from the operating point of view".
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