Alla Guardia Costiera Italiana is conferred the prestigious international prize Meritorious Service Award



Alla Guardia Costiera Italiana is conferred the Meritorious Service Award, prestigious international acknowledgment that is assigned which . The prize is recognized by the International Salvage Union (ISU), association with center in the British and participated Capital from the most characterized world-wide companies than rescue.

the prize is delivered Wednesday to London from the president of the ISU, John Witte, and from the Maritime general secretary of the International Organization (IMO), Ki Tack Lim, to the rear admiral Nicola Carlone, head Reparto Plans and Operations of the General Command of Guard Costiera.

"I am honored - John Witte has declared - to celebrate the great job carried out from the Coastgard Italiana over the last few years and also this year in the important humanitarian initiative to manage the enormous number of migrants whom they tried to reach Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. The staff of the Coastgard Italiana has demonstrated own engagement in order to save human lives in sea and their efforts have gone beyond the borders and are undertaken independently by the circumstances and often with great personal risk; they have saved thousands of lives".

admiral Carlone has manifested the gratefulness of "all the Coastgard Italiana, honored to receive this special acknowledgment for the detail importance to save human lives in sea. The profuse engagement without saving of energies and the dedication demonstrated from our staff is part of our mission and the operations of search and rescue are part of the humanitarian engagement of forehead to an emergency that we cannot ignore".

In occasion of the delivery of the prize Piero Neri, managing director of the society of livornese tugs Black Siblings and member of the executive committee of the ISU, has manifested the pride of all the Italian members of the association for the bestowal of the prize to Guard Costiera, acknowledgment of the enormous humanitarian effort from this profuse one in favor of the next one in danger in sea. Referring, moreover, to the system of safety in the ports, Black it has remembered the action of coordination of the technical-nautical services carried out daily from the Marine Authority, evidencing of the role of centrality to advantage of the operating alacrity for the protection of safety of navigation.