SECH - Terminal Contenitori Porto di Genova

STATO_PRENOT

General Info

Operation

Operating procedures

In this page you can find the terminal admission rules for external staff and his own vehicles.

Concerned subjects: external staff

Reference regulations: ISPS Code, D.Lgs. 626/94

Objectives: in order to guarantee the company’s safety and, more in general, the industrial safety within the terminal, it is advisable to adopt specific rules regulating the admission and the circulation of people and vehicles in the area under the Company’s concession.

General principles

Both persons and vehicles without the necessary authorizations to enter the Port of Genoa granted by the competent Authority are forbidden to enter the terminal.

Both persons and vehicles not involved, directly or indirectly, in the terminal activities are forbidden to enter its area.

The admission to the terminal is allowed to:

Employees;
Third party’s workmen engaged in loading, discharge, handling and transport of containers operations;
Mooring men;
Surveillance and fire service men;
Dealers of the business field;
Suppliers and contractors;
Port Authority, Maritime Authority or Local Health Authority officers with surveillance and control tasks;
Officers of authorities with institutional tasks operating within the port under the regulations in force.

In all the above mentioned cases, the entry of vehicles to the terminal is limited to the actual business needs.

The admission to the terminal may be allowed to other people, authorized by SECH from time to time, as well.

The admission authorization granted by SECH does not entitle to the free circulation within the terminal.

Entry of vehicles
Vehicular traffic
Pedestrian traffic
Pedestrian traffic regulations within the terminal
Vehicular traffic regulations within the terminal

Entry of vehicles

You can enter the terminal through:

Slip road to Piazzale S. Benigno;
Railway gate / SAAR;
Emergency gate.

Vehicular traffic

Only vehicles for loading/discharging operations must use the slip road to Piazzale S. Benigno.

It will be Safety Department’s responsibility to provide further possible directions.

The following subjects can enter through the railway gate/SAAR if driving company cars or if provided with the sign “Company car”, released by the Port Authority, or other ministerial authorizations:

SECH personnel;
Maritime Authority;
Port Authority;
Carabinieri;
Police;
Customs officers;
Financial Police;
Maritime Health Authority;
Veterinary Surgeons;
Mooring men;
Personnel of “S. Barbara” co-operative;
Fire brigade;
Labour inspectors;
Phytopathologists;
Local Health Authority personnel;
Dockers;
Watchmen.

The firms or persons not included in the above list who have to carry out operations implying the use of vehicles within the operating area (ship chandlery, control/maintenance of fittings etc.) must ask the Safety Department for the authorization in advance by fax or e-mail.

Only ambulances and/or other vehicles duly provided with an authorization can use the emergency gate.

Pedestrian traffic

Pedestrian traffic within the operating area is limited to:

Operating personnel of the Company;
Dockers;
Personnel of the co-operatives providing mooring, surveillance and fire services;
Authorities’ officers having institutional tasks;
Authorized personnel serving crews;
Authorized dealers of the business field.

The firms or persons not included in the list above who need to enter the operating area must be authorized by the Safety Department or Company’s management.

Should it be deemed necessary, It will be Safety Department’s responsibility to provide with further information.

Anybody visiting the Company’s premises is required to use either the subway (if bound for the Operating Department Building), or the pedestrian crossing (if bound for the Administration Building.

To go from a building to the other one, it is required the use of the subway: it is absolutely forbidden to cross the path of vehicles.

The crew of the ships at berth can pass through the gatehouse showing the watchmen the authorization granted by the shipping agency and authenticated by the Border Police. The above mentioned personnel can walk only through dedicated areas.

Anybody who needs to board must be identified by the watchmen who will get in touch with the Safety Department which will grant the pass.

Pedestrian traffic regulations within the terminal

Anybody who has been granted the pass must comply with the following regulations:

Enter the terminal through the pedestrian way;
Go only to the areas for which the pass has been granted;
Wear the high visibility vest and/or helmet temporarily delivered at the gatehouse if bound for the operating area;
Follow road markings and signs and, in case of need to leave the pedestrian paths, walk perpendicularly to them after making sure this action does not represent an impediment to possible operations in progress;
Keep the right distance from vehicles or machinery in operation;
Observe the prohibition to enter the stacking area if not accompanied by terminal staff;
Promptly inform the Safety Department’s notice any anomaly or possible danger;
Do not pass under overhead cargo;
Stay in the operating area only for the strictly necessary time to carry out operations for which the pass has been granted;
Follow the instructions issued by the operations supervisors about the transit with respect to the operations in progress.

Vehicular traffic regulations within the terminal