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Germanischer Lloyd signs an agreement with Chinese CNSA in order to promote activity of naval demolition to low environmental impact in China
The understanding previews the cooperation in the activities of search and formation and in the definition of projects pilot
June 6, 2012
The German society of classification and certification Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has signed an agreement of collaboration with China National Ship Recycling Association (CNSA) with the objective to promote activity of naval demolition to low environmental impact in China.
The understanding previews the cooperation to the realization of training courses, the definition of projects pilot and the development of search activities that will allow with the Chinese yards of naval demolition to answer to the next international norms, in advance regarding their effectiveness, and in particular to the Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships of the 2009 who is adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO9 and he is previewed take effect in 2015. Moreover the EU commission has recently proposed new norms based on Hong Kong Convention based on which the European ships will have to be demolished exclusively in plants that assure safety of the workers and the safeguard of the atmosphere. On the base of these new European norms, for some more rigorous aspects regarding those of Hong Kong Convention, will be drafted a list of authorized ship yards to demolish European ships.
"This agreement - it has commented in charge of the procedures for the naval demolition of GL, Gherhard Aulbert - evidence the engagement of the Chinese section of the naval demolitions in reducing the impact on the atmosphere of a ship until the end of its life-cycle".
"I consider - the president of CNSA, Xie Dehua has declared - than a good collaboration from both the parts in the formation, in the projects pilot and the financings it is of immediate and important importance in order to pursue and to reach the objective of a naval demolition more "green"".
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The German society of classification and certification Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has signed an agreement of collaboration with China National Ship Recycling Association (CNSA) with the objective to promote activity of naval demolition to low environmental impact in China.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
