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Port of Genoa, agreement between Customs and Harbour-office for the control of fuel of the ships
The contained sulfur amount will be verified in the fuel
July 13, 2017
The interregional director for the Liguria, Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta of the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies, Franco Letrari, and the regional commander of Guard Costiera of the Liguria, admiral Giovanni Pettorino, a protocol of understanding that defines the control procedures and verification of the contained sulfur amount has undersigned in fuel for marine use of the ships that scale the port of Genoa. Thanks to the agreement the inspecting military staff of the Harbour office of Genoa near specialistic laboratories of the Agency of Customs will be possible to on board examine the captured champions of the ships.
The analyses will be stiff to verify that the fuel for marine use effectively respect admitted the maximum sulfur amounts from the national and communitarian laws that impose, for example, for the ships to the not advanced sulfur mooring a quantitative one to 0.10% in mass.
The convention which signed from Letrari and Pettorino gushes from an agreement picture stipulated to central level between the Ministry of Infrastructures and of the Transports and the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies and it joins in the number of the initiatives times to the safeguard of the health of the citizens and environmental protection of the cities and the genoese coasts.
"With this protocol - it has specified admiral Pettorino - velocizzano the operations of control on the corrected use of fuels employed from the ships that park in our port. An important step towards a more and more complete protection of the atmosphere". "Such agreement - it has added the interregional director Letrari - joins within a already wide and profitable collaboration between the two administrations to support of the national portualità and protection of the legality, the public health and the atmosphere".
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The interregional director for the Liguria, Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta of the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies, Franco Letrari, and the regional commander of Guard Costiera of the Liguria, admiral Giovanni Pettorino, a protocol of understanding that defines the control procedures and verification of the contained sulfur amount has undersigned in fuel for marine use of the ships that scale the port of Genoa. Thanks to the agreement the inspecting military staff of the Harbour office of Genoa near specialistic laboratories of the Agency of Customs will be possible to on board examine the captured champions of the ships.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
