the main purchaser of destined ships to the demolition invites the representatives EU to visit the Indian yards



The Global American Marketing System (GMS), society that buys destined ships to the demolition and is leader of this particular segment of the market of the shipping, has criticized the intention of the EU commission to prohibit the demolition and the recycling of the ships realized with their silting up on spiagge of Asia and the next dismantling until the dismemberment of the port of call ( on March 23, 2012 and 22 October 2013) and it has invited in India the Commission and a representative group of operators of the field of the shipping in order to assist to the procedures of recycling of the ships in one of the best yards of the nation.

In occasion of the fourth edition of the "Shipping & Offshore CSR Forum" of Capital Link, than one has held yesterday to London, the not executive director of GMS, Nikos Mikelis, has emphasized that the yards of naval demolition of the Asian south-east are improving their procedures and has exhorted to state such progresses personally visiting these plants. Making to follow to the words the facts, GMS has been declared disposed to invite the civil employees of the Member States of the Eruopea Union, the experts in matter of dangerous substances, the representatives of shipowners or shipowning associations, the Maritime secretariat of the International Organization (IMO) and the EU commission to verify the improvements that have taken place in the Indian yards of demolition. Al term of the visit will be demanded the delegates to compile a relationship on how much from they assessed.

The interest is obviously obvious that GMS has to prevent that the programmed measures from the EU induce the European shipowners not to send own ships to the demolition in Asia or not to entrust their ships in dismissione to companies, as that American, that they use the Asian yards for their dismantling. However GMS is worried also that – as has explained Mikelis – the progresses completed from the Indian yards can "be abruptly interrupted from the Unit of Waste Management of the head office for the Atmosphere of the EU commission to cause the hurried initiative to prohibit the recycling of the ships through their spiaggiamento". "We can only hope – it has added - that the administrations of more attention Are been European will be able to avoid the serious error that has been diffused to Brussels for the lack of acquaintance of the shipping international and of the recycling of the ships by the legislator".

"Such progresses – it has emphasized moreover Mikelis – can also slow down until to stop if the owners of the yards that they are investing in the improvements do not find some economic return from the customers constituted from responsible shipowners in look for of a recycling sure and cleaned of the ships in the period precedence the effectiveness of international requirement. Considered that the effectiveness of the Convention of Hong Kong (the international convention of 2009 on the recycling of the ships sure and compatible with the atmosphere, ndr) it is practically about to adhesion by India, we are in the presence of the classic situation "of the egg and the hen" if not there is some economic motivation for the yards".

Mikelis has concluded evidencing that politics in matter of responsibility social of enterprise of shipowner responsible, that it holds to the fact that the standards of recycling of the ships are sustainable in all the field of the shipping and not only inside of its company "it must, through practical own, to encourage the yards that they have invested in safety and environmental safeguard independently from the fact that these yards find in southern Asia or elsewhere".