Today the Councillor for Transport of the Sardinia Region, Antonio Moro, took stock of the situation of animal transport live and processing waste in the summer with representatives of shipping companies operating services seafarers with the island. Moro explained that "the meeting of Today, convened following the numerous requests received, Especially on the part of professional organizations, it is served to shed light on the critical issues that have been recorded in recent weeks. The managers of the companies - made Noto the councilor - have confirmed the difficulties in proceeding on loading of loads of live animals and slaughter waste in so-called ro-pax ships (passengers, cars, trucks and trailers) with closed garage, due to the high temperatures that develop within and of the not secondary issue related to miasmas that such loads cause."

Following the videoconference meeting, the councilor specified that Cin Tirrenia, with the administrator Massimo Mura, has confirmed the availability of the company to embark horsepower in ro-pax ships in service on the Genoa-Porto lines Torres, Genoa-Olbia, Livorno-Olbia and Civitavecchia-Olbia, also in summer months and in compliance with the requirements contained in the specific agreement signed at the time with the association Breeders. During the summer months the only lines in which Loads with live animals and waste of slaughter are the cargo ships Livorno-Olbia and Livorno-Cagliari that They are published twice a week.

For its part, the Grimaldi company, with line manager Giovanni Balletta, confirmed the regular embarkation of horses, also in the summer period, on the ro-pax routes Livorno-Olbia, Civitavecchia-Cagliari, Naples-Cagliari, while live animals and slaughter waste may only be loaded on only goods routes Genoa-Porto Torres, Livorno-Cagliari and Salerno-Cagliari which take place three times a week.

Finally Corsica Ferries announced that on the Gulf line Aranci-Livorno in the summer will not embark loads with live animals while Grendi announced employment, by half in July, of another freight-only ship on the Olbia-Marina di route Carrara. Departures from the Gallura port will thus pass by three to four per week, in addition to the five departures per week from the port of Cagliari. On all routes served from Grendi boarding is also allowed in summer of live animals and animal processing waste.

Drawing conclusions from the talks, Moro noted that "There are therefore still some critical issues in the transport of live animals, but the use of an additional vessel from Olbia and the declared willingness of companies to meet the needs of these particular transport services, albeit in a period complex for maritime connections, allows us to be able to affirm that the inconvenience for operators seems destined to be mitigated if not completely eliminated".