Overview
- Location
- Italy
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Description
The Port Authorities are historically entrusted with the discipline and supervision of all maritime and port activities, recognized by the Royal Decree that on July 20, 1865 sanctioned the formal birth of the Corps.
COMPETENCES
The Corps of Port Authorities - Coast Guard, performs tasks related to the civil uses of the sea and is functionally and organizationally framed within the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility to which its main institutional tasks are traced. The Corps also operates under functional dependence on the various Dicasteries, including the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, which make use of its organization and its specialized skills.
Among the aforementioned competences, first of all, the protection of human life at sea, the safety of navigation and maritime transport, as well as the protection of the marine environment, its ecosystems and the surveillance of the entire maritime fishing chain, from the protection of resources to that of the final consumer. To the latter are added the inspections on the national merchant, fishing and pleasure vessels, also conducted on foreign merchant ships that climb the national ports.
ORDER
As a specialized corps of the Navy, the Captaincies exercise in competition, functions of military order in the typical forms provided for by law.
ORGANIZATION
The current staff consists of 11,000 men and women, distributed in a capillary structure consisting of 15 Maritime Directions, 55 Port Authorities, 51 Maritime District Offices, 128 Local Maritime Offices and 61 Beach Delegations, through which the Corps continues to exercise its multiple attributions, on the sea and along the coasts of the country.