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Confetra, the guarantees of safety of navigation can cohabit with fast harbour operations
Marcucci: it is favorable that in the weighing of the container the tolerance value is raised by 3% to 5%
June 7, 2017
"In dawning the regulation of the obligation of weighing of the destined containers to the boarding the General Command of the Harbour offices and the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports has demonstrated that the necessary guarantees of safety of navigation can cohabit with the speed of execution of the harbour operations".
It has emphasized Nereo Marcucci, president of the Confetra, General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics, commenting the emanation by the General Command of the Body of the Harbour offices of the circular n. 133/2017 on safety of the navigation that is centralized on I decree managing 447/2016 of approval of the lines guides application for the determination of the verified gross mass of the container and that it includes an attached one with which the Command supplies interpretative updates "for a flood, corrected and harmonized application is of Rule VI/2 of Solas convention 74 that of national the normative instrument".
Marcucci has evidenced that the which emanated from action the General Command, in dawning the application modalities of the international norm for safety of the people, the goods and the ships, recepisce in great part the demands for advanced simplification and sburocratizzazione from the economic operators of the ports and the logistics guaranteeing elevated standard of safety with appropriate and aimed controls.
"The Confetra - it has concluded Marcucci - wishes moreover that in the near future the tolerance limit is raised to 5% (currently is pairs to ±3%, ndr) to the aim to align it to that of the other States EU".
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