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CLIA and ETC establish the development of practices for the maneuver of the life boats
The crews of the cruise ships will be obligatory for all
September 21, 2012
The associations of the crocieristiche companies Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and European Cruise Council (ETC) have announced the adoption of a new initiative in order to increase safety of the crocieristica activity that is centralized on the operations of boarding on the life boats of the ships by the members of the crew to the aims of their formation.
This initiative, called "Life Boat Loading for Training Purposes" - they have emphasized the two associations - goes beyond requirement for safety previewed from the international norms and previews the development at least every six months of boarding practices on the lifeboats with the objective to form the crew on the specific maneuvers. During such operations the life boats will have to be used in the their full ability embarking to you members of the crew and will have to be maneuvered in water in order to familiarize the crew with the rescue operations. Such practices will be obligatory for all the staff of the ships with crew formed from at least 300 people, while on the ships with less numerous crew analogous activities of formation will be lead.
The new initiatives for safety managed from the two associations will be subordinates to the examination of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in occasion of the next session in program to November.
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