Encounter in Confitarma with the president of the IACS and the general secretary of the ICS



Today in the Shipping center of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma) to Rome the representatives of the shipowning association have met Roberto Cazzulo, president of the IACS (International Association of Classification Societies), the international association that group the agencies of naval classification, and Peter Hinchliffe, general secretary of the ICS (International Chamber of Shipping), the main international association of the industry of the marine transport, that she represents beyond 80% of world-wide the mercantile fleet. For Confitarma to the reunion, centralized on the issues of safety of navigation, of the protection of the atmosphere, the new constructions and the new technologies, the sustainability, of I use it of the which liquified natural gas and of the emissions, Stefano Messina, president of the Commission Relazioni, and Giuseppe Mauro Rizzo, president of the Commission Technical Gestione Ships, let alone numerous shipowners besides commander Giuseppe Famà have participated, taken part in representation of admiral Felicio Angrisano, general commander of the Body of the Harbour offices.

After to have remembered the important role that IACS and ICS play in the world-wide panorama marine, Stefano Messina has found that "we live in an age characterized from evolutions very faster than those to which we were accustomed until some year it makes and - he has added - since the globalization has in a sense accelerated sure processes, we must be conscious of the requirement of being prepared to very more face new situations and being in relation with all the rings of the decisional process". Messina has emphasized that the shipping Italian, also burdened from an excessive bureaucracy, factor of competitive weakness above all in a market that answers to logical that they go beyond those national ones, except rare cases "has faced and is facing the crisis in dear way: we can count - it has concluded - on a fleet that allows to look with greater optimism to the future".

"The shipping - Peter Hinchliffe has declared - it is an important international industry, whose efficiency depends in great part from the uniformity of a total normative picture. He is therefore fundamental that the norms that regulate matters as safety, the protection of the atmosphere and the responsibilities, are applied to all the ships of the world independently from the geographic area in whose they navigate. The only alternative would be the chaos. For this it is so important that the protagonists of the shipping world-wide share their information and their experiences to all the levels for being able to give a concrete contribution in the appointed centers to create the norms that order the numerous aspects of the marine transport".

From part its Roberto Cazzulo, than since last July is to the guide of the IACS that today he classifies beyond 90% of the world-wide fleet, has emphasized that, in assuming the presidency of the IACS, between the main strategic objectives that has been engaged to reach "is that unavoidable one of being daily to the flank of the marine industry for being able some to be interpreters in international center and to contribute to create normative conditions that afford of being competitive taking into consideration all requirement of safety, that it remains and it will be always our priority".

Giuseppe Mauro Rizzo has evidenced that one of the main objectives that the international organisms and the administrations of flag must reach is that to drastically reduce the presence in the marine markets of ships sub too much numerous old standards and anchor. "From this point of view - it has continued - I am proud of being able to assert that Italy today sets in an important position in the context of the shipping world-wide, not only for the consistency of its mercantile fleet, but also and above all because our ships are young, more and more advanced and ecological. It is certain that, inside a field as shipping the fundamental factor for the total economy for its ability to create occupation and investments, the exchange of experiences between the main protagonists of the marine world is of great advantage for all in facing the challenges dictated from the technological progress and the markets".