In the port of Olbia a task is instituted force in order to monitor the environmental impact of the ships



In the port of Olbia a task is instituted force composed by shipowners, marine agencies, Harbour office and Harbour Authority with the scope to ulteriorly develop the good practical for the fruizione of the port and in order to create a system compatible echo and to low impact for the surrounding city atmosphere. The initiative yesterday constitutes the first determined step in the course of a convened reunion from the Marine Direction of Olbia to which the representatives of the companies of Grimaldi navigation have participated, Moby, Tirrenia, of the marine agencies and the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North.

The deep initiative the bases on I decree legislative 112 on June 16, 2014 with which Italy has understood the European directive that has introduced specifies limits on the present sulfur tenor in marine fuel, more groundbreaking controls and the assessment of the infractions and - they have specified the promoters - will be integrated with the indications of the local community olbiese, sensitive to the environmental policies and the health of the collectivity, but equally aware of the value of an economic and social system which that of the port of Olbia, in which annually million passengers and tons of goods journey finalized to the satisfaction of the internal requirements of the Sardinia.

Pietro Preziosi, marine director and extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North, have emphasized that "the carried out monitorings until now have given back always to a data negative to us, for which totally in the norm. But this - it has specified - does not mean that us it must be sunk. Therefore, on sollicitation of some representatives of the local community and thanks to the most precious availability of the companies of navigation and the shipping agents, together with the Harbour Authority we have started a phase of I confront, the first official that of 27 tuesdays september, in order to write a new page in the environmental policies of the portualità. A laboratory where given scientific, evolution of naval engineering, but also marketings and communication, are confronted to go to the intentional results from the EU in fast times and in order to give back to the city greater certainty on the environmental compatibility of the harbour activities".

Precious it has remembered that in the first eight months of this year they have been the almost 4,400 recorded movements ship to the port of Olbia, hardly 300 in less than those found in all 2015, numbers that, second the studies introduced in the course of 49ma the shareholders' meeting of MedCruise that has held last week to Tenerife, carry the Sardinian harbour port of call to the first place in Italy and the second in the Mediterranean after that of the Pireo. "It is clear - it has found Precious - that these numbers, besides the mere satisfaction, demand also an attention towards the possible social and environmental impact on the local community and, therefore, in quality of harbour system between first in Europe for passenger-commercial traffic, the objective is to adopt, with the support of the shipowners, all the innovative policies aimed at the energy saving and the safeguard of the atmosphere. The technical reunion on 27 September, than will in November get up to date with data friendly and proposals, is, therefore, the just starting point".