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The Italian Maritime Administration has passed the IMO audit
Certified the quality of the national maritime transport system
May 17, 2022
From 9 to 16 May, Italy was subjected at the first verification, of a seven-year cycle, by a qualified team of IMO Auditors - composed of members from Great Britain, France, Panama respectively, as well as by a representative of the IMO - who led the own verification activity mainly at the headquarters of the General Command of the Coast Guard in Rome, and at its territorial articulations, through interviews and collection of documentary evidence.
In particular, at the heart of the audit activities, the verification of the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the obligations arising from the international conventions referred to in Italy is a contracting party, i.e. the SOLAS Conventions, MARPOL, LOAD LINES, TONNAGE and STCW and related Protocols, aimed at increasing security levels of navigation, ensuring efficiency and sustainability environmental of maritime transport.
The General Command of the Corps stressed that "the audits have returned an overview of transport Italian seafarer fully compliant with international directives in the field of transport and environmental safety, which make the Italian system - and with it its fleet - a point of concrete reference also for the other Member States of the IMO'. "Positive balance - specified the Command - that, moreover, it is also linked to the recent re-election of Italy in Category A of the Executive Council of the Organization Maritime International (IMO) also for the two-year period 2022-2023, confirmation of the prestige that the country enjoys in the maritime field and testimony of the particular contribution that Italy, thanks also to the activity of its Coast Guard, provides to the sectors maritime and navigation development and safety, and the protection of the marine environment' ( of 13 December 2021).
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From 9 to 16 May, Italy was subjected at the first verification, of a seven-year cycle, by a qualified team of IMO Auditors - composed of members from Great Britain, France, Panama respectively, as well as by a representative of the IMO - who led the own verification activity mainly at the headquarters of the General Command of the Coast Guard in Rome, and at its territorial articulations, through interviews and collection of documentary evidence.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
