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New initiatives in order to monitor the emissions of the ships in the port of Livorno
Reunion in Municipality. Decided the involvement of the navigation companies
September 6, 2017
Today near the Municipality of Livorno an encounter has been carried out in order to face the problematic ones tied to the emissions of the ships that berth in the city port. In the course of the reunion a first action is confirmed that will be put into effect by the Regional Agency for the environmental protection of the Tuscany (Arpat) that in the next weeks, according to a convention stipulated with the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, it will start a campaign aimed of survey of the environmental data in harbour zone and the bordering areas at the aim to obtain an exact cognitive picture of the situation ( on 7 August 2017).
Moreover it is agreed to start, contextually to the monitoring, a distance that will necessarily involve also the companies of navigation to the aim to adopt measures so that in times breviums they are able to control and to reduce the emissions during the access and the parking of the ships in the port.
As reference model will be taken to initiatives and studies in order to for example reduce lessened the environmental impacts already made in other Italian ports (the search lead on the emissions in the port of Genoa and the Blue protocol Flag put into effect in the port of Venice), waiting for the effectiveness in 2020 of the new European discipline that previews limits very more restrictive than those current ones on it I use of fuels.
To the reunion they have participated the alderman to the Atmosphere, Giuseppe Vece, Claudio Vanni in representation of the Authority of Harbour System, captain Bordonaro of the Harbour office of Livorno and the coordinator for the immense area coastal Arpat, Gaetano Licitra.
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Today near the Municipality of Livorno an encounter has been carried out in order to face the problematic ones tied to the emissions of the ships that berth in the city port. In the course of the reunion a first action is confirmed that will be put into effect by the Regional Agency for the environmental protection of the Tuscany (Arpat) that in the next weeks, according to a convention stipulated with the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, it will start a campaign aimed of survey of the environmental data in harbour zone and the bordering areas at the aim to obtain an exact cognitive picture of the situation 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
