The International Chamber of Shipping denunciation the delay of Italy in the present to the IMO the results of the inquiry on the shipwreck of Costa Concordia



If the most challenging project than removal of the property left at death one of a ship, that of the unit from Costa Concordia cruise been shipwrecked beyond a year makes to the island of the Lily, alacremente proceeds with the objective to remove the ship from the reef on which it is sunk within the next september, not equally it speeds up seems to be the investigation in order to assess dynamics of the disaster that has caused the dead women of 32 of the 4,200 people who were on board of the ship at the moment of the collision happened on January 13, 2012 against the group of stumbling blocks called the Scole. This slowness is denounced by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS): the directive council of international the shipowning association, met last Tuesday to London, has expressed frustration because Italy, more than twelve months from the left, has not still introduced to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) a complete relationship on the incident.

Manifesting appreciation for the measures that up to now are taken forward in matter of safety of the passengers and procedures of evacuation of the ships, the president of the ICS, Masamichi Morooka, has found that "up to now the answer of the IMO is measured and reasonable and is hit by the engagement of the governments to the aim to avoid instinctive reactions. However - it has emphasized Morooka - the IMO is more and more under pressure so that it get ahead measures very more radicals before Italy publishes the complete results of its investigation on the incident, what that - the president of the ICS has denounced - singularly still has not succeeded to make. Given the gravity of the disaster, happened more than a year it makes, this lack by Italy is simply unacceptable. We still do not have an official version of which they have been the main causes of an incident that never would in reality not have had to happen".

The International Chamber of Shipping has evidenced as the tragedy of Costa Concordia has put in evidence that which appears to be the inadequacy of the obligations by the States of flag to introduce the results of the inquiries on the Maritime incidents to the International Organization. "The impasse created from the lacked transmission by Italy a conclusive report on an incident of this gravity - it has found the association - indicates that an action in a field in which also other States of flag they are usually defaulting regarding incidents of smaller gravities, but however serious and from which can be necessary can be drafts important lessons for safety".

The Directive council of the ICS therefore has decided that it will subject to the IMO proposed on as strengthening the obligations of the States of flag regarding the relationships on the incidents, proposals - it has specified the association - than probably will be done again to the obligations that now the European Union imposes to its Member States, in order to verify if they can be applied also on a global scale.

The point on the operation of removal of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia is made this afternoon from the admiral inspector head Stefano Tortora, that is member designated from the Civil Protection in the Observatory of monitoring on the removal of property left at death of the ship the Concord, in the course of a crowded organized conference from the Piedmontese From Liguria Section of the Italian Association of Naval Technology (ATHENA) that it has held in the center of the Faculty of Engineering to Cambiaso Villa to Genoa.

Admiral Tortora has illustrated the phases that, quickly after the disaster, have lead to the location of the project in order to remove the ship, that Crowley group is elaborated by the consortium constituted from the American Titan Salvage () and from the Micoperi Italian, and the activities who today are realized, from the anchorage and stabilization of the property left at death one to the installation - still in course - of underwater supports realized with a series of perforations on the granitic backdrop for insertion of poles of support of great platforms destined to constitute a false backdrop on which sinking the ship after its spin. Own this last operation of upset, called "parbucking" - it has found admiral Tortora - will constitute the phase more delicate than a project that, in its thoroughness - it has emphasized - is "absolutely colossal".

Before the upset 15 large chests of water line will be knit on the side left of the property left at death one and, after the rectification of the hull, others 15 large chests will be placed on the starboard side. When the ship is borne away on the false backdrop, the large chests will be emptied by the water in order to allow the rigalleggiamento of the property left at death one, that it will remain submergeeed for 18 meters, and to put it in condition for being towed towards a port that must still be chosen.

It dictates so, the operation appears simple. The presentation of the admiral was equipped with numberless operating, technical and ingegneristici details that - it has evidenced Dove - however represent a meager part of the problems that daily, in the field, is necessary to face and to resolve. This immane daily job, carried out seven days on seven and ventiquattrore one on twenty-four, is executed by the expert team of person in charge of the operation that is formed medium by very 444 specialists of the numerous professional branches necessary in order to carry to term with success and in absolute safety, is for the man who for the atmosphere, a so delicate and titanic assignment.