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Fedepiloti, necessary to apply the APM of the IMO in order to guarantee a sure naval transit in the area of the Mouths of Bonifacio
Flag: the protection project exists and is written up by the IMO after a careful real risk analysis
October 9, 2018
The general secretary of Conftrasporto, Pasquale Russo, taking part today to Cernobbio to the International Forum of the hoary confederation with respect to problematic of the regulation of the naval transit in the Mouths of Bonifacio returned to the attention as a result of the happened collision Sunday to North of the Corsica between a ferry and a portacontainer and to the real threat of an environmental disaster in the mirror of sea of the "Paradise of the cetaceans", a solution has wished that no-go gage for the block of the traffic in the zone, solution over the long term proposed today from the organization enviromentalist WWF Italy(on 9 October 2018), but from regulations for a sure transit stimulating, as demanded from the Internazional Maritime Organization (IMO), the aid of the pilot on board of the ships
Guideline, that of representative of Conftrasporto, shared by Federation Italian Pilots of Ports (Fedepiloti) that it has remembered as from the Mouths they journey annually beyond three thousand ships, of which about 80% are considered to "high/highest" environmental risk also only for the fuel transported independently from the cargo. The president of the Federation, Francesco Bandiera, has emphasized that Fedepiloti is "on hand for how much the competent institutions will determine. The protection project - it has remembered Flag - exists and is written up by the IMO after a careful real risk analysis. One would be to prime a strategy of national participation in order to assure the full operativity of all the Associate Measures of Protection (Associated Protective Measure - APM) for this drawn of sea that is the only Particularly Sensitive Sea Area of the Mediterranean".
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