INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSPORTS OF LIVE ANIMALS FROM ...

Transport of pigs from Spain to Italy, 23. - 25.01.2006
Police check No. 1
Police Unit: Polizia Stradale Imperia
Date and time: 24.01.06, 04:52 – 05:45
Place: Italy, highway A 10, gas station “Ceriale Sud”, shortly before Savona
Journey time till start of police control: nearly 15,5 hours (calculated on basis of the departure time
indicated on route plan)
Remaining distance to destination: 344km to port of Piombino + waiting time at port of Piombino -
approx. 8 hours of sea journey from Piombino to Olbia +
246km from port of Olbia to Guasila
Measures taken by police:
- instructs the drivers to go to one of the two staging points at Perugia to unload and rest the
pigs for 24 hours, because the journey cannot be completed within the allowed journey time of
24 hours.
The water system is now working.
6:25 We loose the truck due to a traffic jam near Genova (Italy).
Some hours later we contact both staging points at Perugia and learn that the truck did not
arrive and the transport company Intertrans Montalban did not call to make a reservation.
We drive to the port of Piombino as usually animals destined for Sardinia are embarked here and we
are suspicious that the drivers would ignore the order given to them by Imperia police (which is to go
to unload the animals at one of the staging points at Perugia), but would go directly to Sardinia.
16:55 Indeed we find the truck parked at the port of Piombino.
Police check No. 2
Police Unit: Polizia Stradale Livorno, distaccamento Venturina
Date and time: 24.01.2006, 17:10 – approx. 20:00
Place: port of Piombino (Italy)
Journey time till start of police control: 27,5 hours (calculated on basis of the departure time indicated
on route plan)
Remaining distance/journey time
to destination: another 5 hours of waiting time in the port of Piombino +
approx. 8 hours of sea transport from port of Piombino to port of
Olbia + 246km from port of Olbia to Guasila
Police states that acc. to the truck’s discs it arrived at the port of Piombino at approx. 12:00 o’clock.
Measures taken by police:
- fine of 3.098 Euro for having exceeded the permitted journey time (Fine no. 700002026243).
Fine is issued against the driver Marius Alin Cenan and against the owner of the truck, José
Luis Montalban.
- official veterinarian is contacted
Veterinary check:
Veterinary service: A.S.L. Piombino
Decision taken by veterinarian:
- transport can be continued to destination as veterinarian considers it to be too complicated to
send the truck to a staging point to unload and rest the animals
The veterinarian does not check on the identification of the animals.
Approx. 20:10 Truck enters the ferry “Golfo degli Angeli” of the ferry line “Lloyd Sardegna”. The
journey time until embarkation is therefore 30,5 hours.
Acc. to the master of the ship “Golfo degli Angeli” it is approx. sea force 5 and wind force 20 knots.
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Place and date of report: Freiburg, 04.03.2006 © Copyright Animals’ Angels e.V. ::::::
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