Passage of deliveries to the summit of the Body of the Harbour offices



This morning to Rome the ceremony of the passage of deliveries to the summit of the Body of the Harbour offices has been carried out - Guard Costiera, with the admiral inspector Giovanni Pettorino who has assumed the admiral degree inspector head subentrando in the charge to the admiral inspector head Vincenzo Melone. To the event it has taken it leave minister of Infrastructures and Trasporti, Graziano Delrio, the Chief of Staff of the Defense, general Claudio Graziano, and the Chief of Staff of Marina, vice admiral Valter Girardelli, as well as the summits of the Armed Forces, Body and Police forces the other of the State.

In its participation of leave admiral Melone has travelled over again the period passed to the guide of the Body: "the word "encounter" - it has asserted - represents the synthesis, the map of litmus of a period that finds its coronamento here. Opening itself to the encounter with the others, institutions, civil society, operators of the field and staff of Guard Costiera, have been born the better things, to the base of the results reached in this intense period in which I have had the privilege and the honor to guide the Body".

"He is with great and deep admiration - admiral Pettorino has declared - than today I receive the delicate assignment that the Italian government has intentional to entrust to me. I thank therefore the minister of Infrastructures and of the Transports, the military minister of the Defense and summits that they have intentional to grant to me to this high honor and the privilege to serve our Country at the head of a Body, as that of the Harbour offices, gives beyond a century and means to the service of which every day they live and they work in our seas and long our coasts".

Successively they are taken part the Chief of Staff of Marina Militare, admiral Walter Girardelli, and the Chief of Staff of the Defense, general Claudio Graziano, that they have emphasized as Guard Costiera effectively is inserted in system-Country, sostanziando a binomial of colleganza and approach integrated to the stiff activities to the common good, in the sign of the most poured them interoperability.

The ceremony has been concluded with the participation of the minister Delrio who has remembered some of the more meaningful episodes of the acts of admiral Melone to the guide of a Body that has been distinguished because - it has evidenced - "careful to the humanity, but firm in the respect of the legality in operating for the good of the sea". In congratulare itself with admiral Melone for the reached results, the minister has wished a "sincere auspice of good wind" to admiral Pettorino.