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Evitt (InterManager): it is necessary to allow the payment of the ransoms demanded from the pirates
Otherwise an effect would be had extremely negative is for the marine ones that for the total economy
March 20, 2012
Taking part yesterday to the session of opening of the Maritime conference of the Connecticut Association (CMA) to Stamford, in the United States, Alastair Evitt, managing director of Meridian Marine Management, president of InterManager and neopresidente of the campaign Save Our Seafarers, that he has the objective to exhort the governments to act in order to contrast piracy ( on 1° March 2011), the conviction of the industry of the shipping has restated second which it is necessary to allow the payment of the ransoms demanded from the pirates who seize the ships. "Any initiative at the level of government in order to prohibit the payment of ransoms to the pirates - it has explained - would have an effect extremely negative is on marine that on the total economy.
Evitt has found that, not only such prohibition would have an impact on the availability of the crews to navigate in areas to high risk, but every disabled shipowner to pay a ransom for its crew and its ship difficultly could have newly of another crew. The president of InterManager has emphasized that many ships would be forced to change broken with a consequent effect on the costs, while "for those who they are forced to journey in areas to risk piracy - it has observed - the insurance prizes would become prohibitive, not to mention the fact that in many cases the ships, passed six months, would be considered a loss total".
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Taking part yesterday to the session of opening of the Maritime conference of the Connecticut Association (CMA) to Stamford, in the United States, Alastair Evitt, managing director of Meridian Marine Management, president of InterManager and neopresidente of the campaign Save Our Seafarers, that he has the objective to exhort the governments to act in order to contrast piracy 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
