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Satisfaction of the European shipowners for the activation of Guard Costiera and European Frontier
Verhoeven: a greater sharing of the abilities to the Coastgards and the information will be sure of aid
October 12, 2016
the association of the European shipowners has expressed satisfaction for the activation of Guard Costiera and European Frontier happened some days before to the frontiers Bulgarian-Turk( 6of October 2016), new Agency - it has emphasized the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) - whose scope is a efficient management of the European frontier in consideration of the increasing challenges for safety facing during the last few years from the mercantile fleet in the Mediterranean, where the ships has drawn in salvo thousands of people although the great risks for safety and the protection of the immigrants, the crews and the ships.
"Guard Costiera and of European Frontier - it has found the general secretary of the ECSA, Patrick Verhoeven - will supply the missing link in order to strengthen the European marine frontiers. We - he has explained - consider that a greater sharing of the abilities to the Coastgards and the information will be sure of aid in order to identify and to answer to all the potential threats to safety and in order to effectively relieve the mercantile fleet from the aid operations".
"the shipowners - it has specified Verhoeven - will always continue to answer to the legal and moral duty to help the people in danger in sea. But the ships neither are not constructed neither equipped for these operations of search and aid on wide scale. The marine ones are not trained for this, and therefore he is the migrants is the crews of the ships are exposed to risks for safety, to health hazards, tensions, efforts physicists and the psychological impact. Moreover to the aid operations serious worries regarding the responsibility in case of incidents are tied, of dead men, marine pollution, diseases so like relatively to the disembarkation in safety of the immigrants. Therefore it is particularly appreciate a better cooperation and support from the Member States, thanks to the support of the new Agency".
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the association of the European shipowners has expressed satisfaction for the activation of Guard Costiera and European Frontier happened some days before to the frontiers Bulgarian-Turk
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- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
