Corps of the Port Captaincies

Corps of the Port Captaincies
Corps of the Port Captaincies
Coast Guard
Guardia Costiera.svg

Racing stripe of the Italian Coast Guard
Active 1865 - Present
Country Italy
Branch Italian Navy
Type coast guard
Size Roma, viale dell'Arte, 16
Patron Saint Barbara
Motto Latin: Omnia vincit animus
Anniversaries July 20 - foundation day
Commanders
comandante generale ammiraglio ispettore capo
Ferdinando Lolli
Insignia
Naval Ensign Naval Ensign of Italy.svg
Naval Jack Naval Jack of Italy.svg-Naval Jack of Italy (verso).svg
Italian Navy
coat of arms
CoA Marina Militare Italiana.svg
Italian SAR area and MRSC areas.

The Corps of the Port Captaincies - Coast Guard (Italian language:Corpo delle Capitanerie di porto - Guardia costiera) is the coast guard of Italy and is part of the Italian Navy under the control of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

Contents

Missions

- Search and Rescue
- Maritime Law Enforcement
- Protection of marine resources
- Safety of navigation
- Fisheries regulation

History

Operational SAR branch of the Corpo delle Capitanerie di Porto or Corps of the Port Captaincies which was organized first by royal decree of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in 1865. It was reorganized as part of the Regia Marina in 1915, (since 1946 Marina Militare) and on June 8, 1989, redesignated Guardia Costiera.

Structure and organization

Structure

The Corps of the Port Captaincies - Coast Guard is structured as follow:

  • 1 MARICOGECAP - Port Captaincies General Headquarters - Comando generale, which functions of Italian Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (IMRCC)
  • 15 DIREZIOMARE - Maritime Directorates - Direzioni marittime, which are at the head of as many Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre Commands (MRSC)
  • 54 COMPAMARE - Maritime Compartments / Captaincies of Port - Compartimenti marittimi / Capitanerie di porto
  • 48 CIRCOMARE - Maritime District Offices - Uffici circondariali marittimi
  • 132 LOCAMARE - Local Maritime Offices - Uffici locali marittimi
  • 60 DELEMARE - Maritime Delegations or Beach Delegations - Delegazioni marittime or Delegazioni di spiaggia

Moreover the following services are also part of the Corps:

  • the air-sea component;
  • the Cospas-Sarsat satellite station of Bari (in synergy with the Civil Protection Department);
  • the 3 Underwater Operators Groups (San Benedetto del Tronto, Naples and Messina);
  • the 2 Nautical Teams (Lake Garda - Salò; Lake Maggiore - Verbania)
  • the Marine Environmental Division of the Port Captaincies by the Ministry for the Environment and Protection of the Territory;
  • the group by the General Fishery Direction of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Tasks

The Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard is a Corps of the Italian Navy that has tasks and functions connected mostly to the civil use of the sea and with functional dependence of various ministries that avail themselves on their work: first of all the Ministero dei trasporti (Ministry for Transports) which has "inherited" in 1994, from the Ministry of the Merchant Navy, the major part of the functions connected to the use of the sea and the connected activities with the commercial and pleasure navigation a on whose budget weighs the costs for the running of the corps.

The principal tasks of the Corps activities are the following:

  • Search and rescue at sea (SAR) with the entire organization of co-ordination, control, detection and communications active for 24 hours a day requested by this activity;
  • Safety of navigation, with systematic investigative controls on the entire national mercantile, fishing and pleasure shipping, through the activity of Port State Control, also on the foreign mercantile shipping that calling at the national ports;
  • Protection of the marine environment, with functional dependence of the Ministero dell'ambiente e della tutela del territorio (Ministry for the Environment), using for this aim also resources (operations' centers, aeronaval crafts, naval traffic control systems) already used for tasks of rescue, safety of navigation, and maritime police;
  • Control on maritime fishery, with functional dependence on the Ministero per le politiche argicole e forestali (Ministry of Agriculture): at this end the general command is the responsible authority of the National Fishing Control Center and the Captancies carry out the controls prescribed by the national and community norms on the entire fishing fleet;
  • Peripheral administration of State functions in the matters of formation of the maritime personnel, of registration of the mercantile and fishing shipping, of pleasure shipping, and of the contentious for those maritime crimes that have been de-penalized;
  • Maritime police (namely technical-administrative maritime police), including the discipline of maritime navigation and the regulation of the events that are carried out in the maritime areas that fall under the national sovereignty, the control of the maritime traffic, the manoeuvre of the ships and the safety in the ports, inquiries on the maritime accidents, the control on the maritime State property, the testing and periodic inspections of coastal deposits and other hazardous installations.

Other functions are carried out for the Ministries of defence (enrollment of the military personnel), for Cultural Activities and Treasures (underwater archaeology), of internal affairs (anti-illegal immigration), of Justice and the department of civil protection, all having as a common denominator the sea and navigation. The broadness and the variety of activities carried out present the Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard as an organism of reference for the maritime activities and make of them a true "sole counter" for the relations with the seafarers. The Corps is represented in a highly specialized structure, as well under the administrative profile as under the technical-operational one, for the completing of the Public functions that are carried out in the maritime spaces of national interest. These spaces include 155 000 km² of maritime waters, internal and territorial, which are in every respect part of the national territory, and other 350 000 km² of waters on which Italy has exclusive rights (exploitation of the depths resources) or duties (rescue in sea and safeguard of the marine environment): a number of marine areas whose extension is almost the double of the entire national territory, which as it is known amounts to 301 000 km². Following the tendency that is affirming itself in Europe, the maritime authority - coast guard must exercise an effective control in sea for the safeguard of human life, for the safety of navigation, for the correct going on of the economic activities (fishing and exploitation of the continental platform) and for the protection of the marine environment.

Insignia

Like related coast guards around the world, the Guardia Costiera uses "The Stripe" on its vessels. This marking is in the national colors, with a narrow green band, a narrow white spacing, and a broad red band. Inside the red band is a white circle with a black anchor.

Ships

Patrol Boats

(6)

CP-902 U. Diciotti in Mitillini Harbour, Greece
  • Saettia class
    • Saettia (CP 901)
  • Diciotti class
    • Diciotti (CP 902)
    • Dattilo (CP 903)
    • Fiorillo(CP 904)
    • Peluso (CP 905)
    • Corsi (CP 906)

Small Patrol Boats

(9)

  • Cavallari class
    • Cavallari (CP 401)
    • Pennetti (CP 402)
    • Fachin (CP 403)
    • Magliano (CP 404)
  • Scialoja class
    • Mazzinghi (CP 405)
    • Scialoja (CP 406)
    • Lolini (CP 407)
    • Grabar (CP 408)
  • Ingianni class
    • Ingianni (CP 409)

Motorboats

(272)

  • 6-15 ton
    • CP 2083 class (51 vessel)
    • CP 542 class (65 vessel)
    • CP 601 (2 vessel)
    • CP 702 class (12 vessel)
    • CP 803 class (13 vessel)
    • CP 816 class (25 vessel)
    • CP 830 Giubileo class (6 vessel)
    • CP 841 class (48 vessel)
  • 16-50 tonn
    • CP 2203 class (5 vessel)
    • CP 255 class (6 vessel)
    • CP 262 class (4 vessel)
    • CP 271 AGA (extended range) class (28 vessel)
    • CP 318 class (4 vessel)
    • CP 456 class (3 vessel, Ambulance ships)

Rigid-hulled inflatable boats

(212)

  • GC 166 class (184 vessel)
  • GC A01 class (28 vessel)

Aircraft

Piaggio P.166 DL 3 Italian Coast Guard.
Aircraft Origin Type Versions In service[1] Notes
Agusta-Bell AB412  Italy search and rescue AB412 9 built by Agusta-Bell
AgustaWestland AW139  Italy search and rescue AW139 4
Piaggio P.166  Italy maritime patrol P.166 7
Piaggio P.180  Italy maritime patrol P.180 Avanti II 1
ATR 42  Italy maritime patrol ATR42MP 2 1 on order

References

  1. ^ "World Military Aircraft Inventory", Aerospace Source Book 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 15, 2007.

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