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Order of Charon & Tourist to the Turk Sefine Shipyard for a new ferry
Three workers are died while they were to the job on a ship of the Italian company in the port of Messina
November 30, 2016
The Turkish ship yard Sefine Shipyard will construct a ferry with fed system of propulsion to which liquified natural gas that it is destined to the Italian company Charon & Tourist. The ship, that it will be planned by Norwegian LMG Marin and will be delivered in 2018, will be employed in the Strait of Messina for the connections between Villa San Giovanni and Mediterranean Messina. The new ferry will be along 133 meters, wide 21,5 meters and will be able to transport 1,500 passengers and 290 cars.
Yesterday while, in the port of Messina, on the Sansovino ship of Charon & Tourist three workers have passed away who were executing work of cleansing inside a reservior and others three, of which in most serious conditions, are hospitalized in hospital. President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has joined to the pain of the families of the workers and has expressed with force the exhortation "to make of all because these most serious tragedies are not repeated".
Expressing vicinity to the families of the people involved in the incident, the company Charon & Tourist have assured the maximum collaboration so that dynamics of the facts becomes clear, at the moment to the sieve of the investigators, and has announced the activation of an internal commission of inquiry so as to enlighten on the happened one in the short possible time.
Mourning and vicinity to the families of the victims are expressed by the representatives of the unions: "we tighten ourselves to the relatives of the dead workers and the wounded", they have declared the national secretariats of Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti. "We attend to know by the judiciary exact dynamics - the representatives of the three trade-union acronyms have explained - and ask, in order to enlighten as soon as possible, an immediate inquiry by the agencies of control of the Ministry of Transportation, but while we find that other human lives join the tragic one and rent formation of the white dead, dishonourable of a civil country. This tragic event to little days from another in the port of Salerno right there puts of all the urgency of an immediate legislative participation of adaptation of the norms that discipline safety in the ports and on the ships".
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The Turkish ship yard Sefine Shipyard will construct a ferry with fed system of propulsion to which liquified natural gas that it is destined to the Italian company Charon & Tourist. The ship, that it will be planned by Norwegian LMG Marin and will be delivered in 2018, will be employed in the Strait of Messina for the connections between Villa San Giovanni and Mediterranean Messina. The new ferry will be along 133 meters, wide 21,5 meters and will be able to transport 1,500 passengers and 290 cars.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
