the new norms for the shipping - the ICS emphasizes - will have to take into consideration the atmosphere, but also of the sustainability of the marine transport



The future norms for the field of the shipping will have to hold in absolute consideration the safeguard of the atmosphere, but also the sustainability of the marine transport. It has emphasized Masamichi Morooka, president of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), organization that he represents beyond 80% of world-wide the mercantile fleet, in occasion of the assembly anniversary of the shipowning association that has held last week to Limassol.

"The protection of the atmosphere - Morooka has explained - is all-important and the ICS does not question the objectives or the good intentions that usually are to the base of the majority of the governmental proposals. But - it has specified - we consider that in future a lot will have to be place more the accent on the opportune appraisals about the impact of the norms, that they totally hold also account of the economic sustainability of the marine transport. Moreover - it has added - the Member States Maritime of the International Organization will have to turn greater attention to the praticabilità and the tempistica of performance of the new regulations. This - it has evidenced Morooka - would have to happen before the norms are adopted and not many years after, when it could be too late".

According to the shipowning association, it is necessary in fact to so draw lessons from that already it has happened with the definition of norms, as the Convention on the ballast water, than - it has found the ICS - "successively they have revealed large problems, as other technical norms that often are got ahead without to hold in some account the economic impact or the not intentional consequences of already existing norms".

"In last the 50 years - it has specified the International Chamber of Shipping - the International Maritime Organization has operated much good for the field supplying to the shipowners a normative picture total suit. But the worry grows that something does not go about the quality and the amount of the recent normative modifications. Too much often - it has observed the association - the ICS sees to get ahead by the proposed governments of regulation without some test in support of theirs urgent necessity".

Recognizing that to bring improvements to the process of definition of the norms near the International Maritime Organization it constitutes a complicated and difficult topic and that simple solutions do not exist, the assembly of the ICS has convene to develop some concrete proposals to discuss the next year with the legislators.

In the course of the assembly the Japanese Masamichi Morooka is confirmed president of the ICS for a second term. Vices president John C Lyras (Greece are confirmed in their assignment also i), Karin Orsel (Holland), Gerardo Borromeo (Philippine) and Esben Poulsson (Singapore).