Angopi, the Italian norms that regulate the technical-nautical services work well



"When it is spoken about safety is not spoken about an improper cost, an accessory, but of an investment form that offers quality guarantee to the service, to the port, the common good". It has emphasized president of the national Association Gruppi Ormeggiatori and Barcaioli Italian Ports (Angopi), Cesare Guidi, in the course of the "2° national Forum on safety in the ports" organized from the association that has held today to the Palace of the Conferences to Ravenna.

In its participation It guides has evidenced that "the defined organizational model from the legislator, that sees the technical-nautical services to operate under the control and the vigilance of the Marine Authority, has demonstrated to work well, supplying to the ports a garrison of safety, economically sustainable, whose contribution goes abundantly beyond the single institutional activity".

The president of Angopi has stopped himself also on the law 230/2016 that has brought modifications to the navigation code in matter of responsibility of the pilots of the ports and dispositions in matter of technical-nautical services: draft - it has emphasized - of a norm "of extraordinary importance" that disciplines the distribution and the circumstances that justify the obligatory nature of the mooring service, "characterizing in I decree ministerial the provision for its regulation, that it comes therefore removed from the conditioning local pressures and guarantees the application of uniform criteria with regard to, avoiding that safety can be instrumentalized to fine anti-competitive".

The Concorde admiral Giovanni Pettorino, marine director of the Liguria and commander of the port of Genoa: with the 230/2016 - it has found - "finally we have exited from localism".

Also the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, has insistito on the validity of the new norms in harbour matter, that they have allowed to abandon a narrow vision of the Italian portualità: thanking the operators of the technical-nautical services for their activity in assuring that the traffics and the ability to the ports grow in full safety, Delrio has observed that "the job that the Parliament has made on the reform of the ports has demonstrated that Italy is able to cooperate and to not only live itself in the particolarismo".

The minister has restated also the necessity to reduce the road traffic using the freeways of the sea and the railroads: "I do not want more truck on the roads of the peninsula over the 500 kilometers - it has asserted - uses the railroad and the ships. We by sea have provisions that go in the direction to favor the lowland payment taxes on the goods via iron and".

In the occasion of 2° the Forum on safety the General Command of the Harbour offices has signed a protocol of understanding with the Angopi for the constitution of operating teams of ready participation in occasion of marine lefts. "Draft - the association of the ormeggiatori and the boatmen has remembered - of the concrete application of one of the eight points who were characterized in occasion of 1° the national Forum on safety of the ports and that confirmation is the strait tie between the marine authorities and the ormeggiatori groups of the Italian ports, is the indissoluble tie of the activities from these last ones lend with safety of navigation".

In the course of the day minister Delrio and admiral Pettorino have delivered the Prize for Safety of marine Transport 2016 the represented ones of the ormeggiatori, the pilots and the tugs of the port of Genoa, respective Alessandro Serra, John Gatti and Alberto Delle Piane. The prize is conferred - the motivation recites - for "extreme courage and elevated marinaresca skill" with particular reference to two exemplary operations, chosen from an appropriate commission composed from a advanced official of the Body of the Harbour offices and from a civil employee of the Head office for the vigilance on the harbour Authorities. An operation has been the complex plan of transfer of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, been shipwrecked in January 2012 in front of the island of the Lily, the other goes back on 4 March of 2015 when, because of a gale with bursts of beyond 100 km hour, tore the moorings of portacontainer the COSCO Africa, moored in the zone of extreme East of terminal VTE to Genoa: after hours and hours that they saw engaged the technical-nautical services of the port of Genoa in order to try to bring back the ship of beyond 350 meters to the mooring, the decision to exit from the port in order to avoid a collision of the COSCO Africa with Costa Concordia. The first operation is rewarded for example of a perfect coordination if of a programmed operation, while if of the COSCO Africa the technical-nautical services have demonstrated their efficiency in an emergency situation.