Some new enabling qualifications for maritime professions may be established shortly.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, in fact, has drafted a decree to be submitted for consultation to trade associations and unions, emphasizing “the need to establish new professional qualifications for maritime navigation and inland navigation that also takes place in the Venetian Lagoon, which are adequate in terms of training and qualification for the navigation and traffic they are intended for.”
In particular, the decree would establish “new professional qualifications for seafarers registered in the first category of seafarers who embark exclusively on national ships employed in national coastal navigation and on national ships employed in littoral navigation” and “for those registered in the first category of the navigating personnel of inland navigation, or in the seafarers’ register for personnel operating on ships used for public navigation services of the municipal and provincial services of Venice.”
For the first category, four new professional qualifications are planned: “Commander for coastal traffic; Commander for littoral traffic; Chief Motorist; Qualified Machinist”. For the second, six: “Commander for inland waters; First Officer for inland waters; Helmsman for inland waters; Director for inland waters; Motor Officer for inland waters; Stoker Officer for inland waters”.
The commander for coastal traffic will be able to command “ships used for the transport of goods and passengers in the Maritime District where the ship is registered or in the maritime district of the ship’s operation within twenty miles from the coast” or “ships with a gross tonnage not exceeding 350 tons used for the transport of goods and passengers between State Ports within twenty miles from the coast”.
The one for littoral traffic will command “ships with a gross tonnage not exceeding 500 tons used for cargo transport, within six miles from the coast, in the maritime district where the ship is registered, or of operation, and in the two adjacent ones; ships with a gross tonnage not exceeding 350 tons, used for passenger transport within three miles from the coast in the maritime district where the ship is registered, or of service, and in the two adjacent ones; ships used for technical-nautical services within the territorial scope identified by the provisions regulating their activity”.
Requirements and limits have also been defined for all other figures provided for by the decree.
