Heavy machinery intervenes in silo from Moldova's Giurgiulesti Free International Port

Chisinau, 24 January /MOLDPRES/ - Employees of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) from south Moldova today continue the mission of liquidation of the fire in the Giurgiulesti Free International Port. The heavy machinery, as well as the specialized team of firemen will get involved to ensure the anti-fire security in the area hit by the fire.    

According to IGSU, in the last 24 hours, a post of rescuers and firemen was in the port, which intervened for works of liquidating the consequences of the fire. The heavy machinery, as well as the rescuers’ specialized team got involved to ensure the anti-fire security in the zone affected by the fire. Following the actions undertaken by IGSU employees, the risks for the area’s infrastructure were removed. For the moment, there is no danger for people or the economic objects from the Giurgiulesti Free International Port, as well as in its immediate neighbourhood.    

The quoted source said that firemen would further ensure all needed processes for the fire’s final liquidation.

Also today, the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection informed that the work of the Danube Oil Company, which was managing reservoirs of goats, had been suspended till the correction of the infringements detected. Also, the Agency for Technical Supervision instructed the demolition of the non-conforming silos and the materials of controls are to be submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office for consideration. Following investigations, the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection found out that the economic agent had been working in the lack of the notification of the object’s ecological expertise, environmental permit for the emission of pollutants in atmosphere and in the conditions when norms of the admissible emissions were not established.  

The Agency for Technical Supervision (AST) has earlier issued a prescription on the demolition of silos and gave term of 60 working days for removing the infringements. According to AST decision-makers, the project solution adopted for the depositing of the groats from the processing of sunflower seeds was not adequate, according to the technical passport, the silos with conical base were conceived for the stocking of non-sticky and non-aggressive materials.

In the last month, two reservoirs full of groats of sunflower seeds took fire at the Giurgiulesti Free International Port.  

Photo: IGSU