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The Council of State has rejected the resource of Boskalis Italy against the Harbour office of Taranto and Fedepiloti
The sentence has confirmed that the society was obliged to make use of the pilotage service
December 21, 2018
The Council of State has rejected the resource proposed from the Boskalis Italy, branch of the marine group Dutch Royal Boskalis Westminster, against the Defense Ministries and of Infrastructures and Transports and against the Harbour office of Taranto and the Italian Federation Pilots of the Ports (Fedepiloti) for the reform of the sentence of half last year of the Regional administrative court for the Apulia that had confirmed the obligation tax from the Harbour office of the apulian port of call to the Boskalis Italy to make use of the service of pilotage for handlings in harbour waters taring some of the dredge and the lighters used from the society. "The appeal - the Council of State explains in the judgment - must be considered groundless, being totally corrected the reconstruction to all purposes and effects and by right operated from the judgment of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT and the appraisal in it carried out".
Fedepiloti has evidenced that the pronunciamento of the Council of State has found "legitimacy of the necessity of the pilotage service on board" and that the appraisals of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT about pilotage radio VHF are confirmed also, modality - remembers the sentence - that "consists in a effective performance of pilotage by the pilots during the movement of the ship, that on board allows however a ready participation with pilot in case of necessity and, above all, affords to maintain to the coordination in head to the tower pilots of all the movements ship in harbour within", prohibited modality however from decrees on December 12, 1996 ministerial "if the ship has advanced tonnage to 2.000 tons, circumstance, this, happened if of species": "in any case - specific the sentence - the pilotage could not have been supplied to means VHF regarding the Causeway ship for the simple fact that it did not respect first of requirement of which to art. the 4 of I decree, that is that relative one to the tonnage".
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