Welsh (GSF): the cost-effective loaders can contribute to an approach for the reduction of gases greenhouse of the shipping



If not controlled, the produced carbon dioxide emissions from the marine transport could increase of +250%. The data percentage is evidenced by the Global Shippers' Forum (GSF), the not governmental organization to which associations of loaders and shippers of Nord and South America are under responsibility, of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and Africa, in occasion of the start of the fourth briefing of the organization on the emissions of the marine transport.

And it is a data percentage resumed from the last study on the produced gas emissions greenhouse from the ships that are approved of at the end last year by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and that it emphasizes as, if ulterior measures are not adopted, within the 2050 emissions of co2 of the shipping could increase between +50% and +250%, on the base of the future economic and energetic development.

The study of the IMO, moreover, rimarca also as during the last few years the quantitative one of the produced carbon dioxide emissions from the shipping is diminished: in 2012 - the relationship specifies - the produced emissions of co2 from the marine transport have been pairs to 796 million tons regarding 885 million tons in 2007, pairs therefore to 2.2% of the total of the world-wide emissions of co2 in 2012 regarding 2.8% in 2007.

"The marine transport - Chris Welsh has confirmed, general secretary of the GSF - is already a modality of transport of the goods very efficient from the point of view of the carbon emissions and transports about 90% of all the world-wide commerce. However - it has specified - it is destined to grow in meaningful way to the rhythm of world-wide the commercial exchanges and - it has found Welsh - currently it does not have a regulation mechanism in order to limit the future increase of the gas emissions greenhouse".

"The loaders - it has continued Welsh - are pressed so that they communicate the emissions produced along the supply chain. However - the general secretary of the Global Shippers' has remembered Forum - the loaders and the carriers have completed remarkable progresses in this field through voluntary systems as that which set up from the Clean Cargo Working Group (the CCWG are instituted in 2001 from the organizations of the shippers, the shipowners and the companies of the logistics in order to estimate and to monitor the environmental performances of the containerized marine transport, ndr). The GSF - Welsh has explained - considers that the methodology developed from these groups for the measurement, the calculation and the verification of the carbon emissions would have to be used from the EU and the IMO as starting point for their initiatives of regulation".

Remembering that the representatives of the Global Shippers' Forum have participated to last the three reunions of Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the IMO in order to introduce the point of view of the loaders, Welsh has observed that "the IMO is advancing towards solutions useful to reduce the emissions of the marine transport and - has specified - in the course of last year GSF has churns in order to emphasize own infuence in center IMO. We continue to being convinced - it has concluded Welsh - than the loaders can contribute to influence the cost-effective debate and to assure that there is an approach for the reduction of gases greenhouse".