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RINA Services assumes the presidency of the IACS
the president of the Italian company, Roberto Cazzulo, is elected chairman of the association
July 2, 2013
From on July 1°, 2013 on June 30, 2014 the Italian society of classification and certification RINA it stops the presidency of the IACS (International Association of Classification Societies). During the last session of the directive council of the association of the classification societies, than one has held to Oxford in recent days, Roberto Cazzulo, president of RINA Services, is elected chairman of the IACS for this period.
To support of the presidency of Roberto Cazzulo the RINA will put on a team of experts, in order to contribute in concrete terms to the work of the association in the development of norms and able international standards to answer to the new requirements of the marine industry and to do so as that the IACS, than today classifies beyond 90% of the world-wide fleet, maintains own role of absolute technical reference to total level.
"In so complex an economic context - Cazzulo has declared - we believe that only cooperating actively through the IACS, the more important society than classification of all the world they will be able to still raise more the levels than safety, of attention towards the atmosphere and of performance of the world-wide fleet and with this objective the RINA puts on the best technical experience. I will engage myself - it has explained - in order to assure a dialogue and I not only inside confront franc and constant of the association but with all the operators of the field. Between the main strategic objectives of my presidency us of he is an unavoidable one who are that of being daily to the flank of the marine industry for being able some to be interpreters in international center and to create of the normative conditions that afford of being competitive without some compromise regarding safety, that it remains and it will be always our priority".
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