the shipowners are satisfied of the progresses completed with meeting IMO on the emissions of the ships



In the course of the last reunion of Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), concluded today to London, an agreement on the initiatives for the reduction of the produced emissions of co2 from the marine transport is not reached. According to the organization not governmental Transport & Environment, whose scope is to promote politics of the transports in the European Union and to total level that is based on the principles of the sustainable development, with the lacked agreement the field the shipping "is left to heels over".

Of different warning the shipowning organizations International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA). For the ICS, in the reunion of this week they are completed of the progresses towards the adoption of a total system of collection of data on the emissions of co2 that are received with favor: "the majority of the details - it has evidenced the general secretary ICS, Peter Hinchliffe - is agreed, between which the important fact that it will be obligatory to communicate the data on the emissions of co2. We are sure - it has specified Hinchliffe - than the system will be adopted in the course of next the meeting of the MEPC to October".

The ICS has remembered that, once that the amendment to marpol convention will take effect, all the ships of beyond 5.000 tons of tonnage will have to supply information on the emissions of co2 through their States of flag. According to the ICS, once that the system of collection of the data will be adopted, the Member States of the IMO they will be in a better position in order to take in consideration the development of ulterior measures of reduction of the emissions of co2 and to answer to the agreement of Paris on the climatic change. While this week, to judgment of the ICS, "the Member States they have agreed an acceptable compromise between the governments interested mainly to the data on the fuel consumption and the carbon dioxide emissions and those which want that they are collections additional information".

For the ICS - Hinchliffe has explained - "the priority is time that to convince the European Union to adapt to its unilateral regulations on the communication and verification of the single emissions of the ships in order to return it compatible with what now it is agreed in center IMO. If this can be difficult - it has found the general secretary of the ICS - is encouraged by the constructive attitude assumed this week from the Member States of the European Union let alone from other nations that initially had expressed worries about the decision to return the system of the IMO obligatory".

Also the European shipowners have praised the completed progresses this week in the course of sessantanovesima the session of the MEPC: "it is very positive - it has observed the general secretary of the ECSA, Patrick Verhoeven - than the Member States of the IMO have been able to come to an agreement itself on these passages on the wake of the agreement of Paris on the climatic change. This - it has emphasized - confirmation the absolute leadership of the IMO in facing the increase of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect produced from our field". Verhoeven has specified that, therefore, also the European shipowners are "particularly pleased that, in the within of the total system of collection of the data, the communication of the emissions of co2 will be obligatory".

Transport & Environment consider instead that the reunion of London has demonstrated that "the IMO has turned out irrimediabilmente uniform in a debate that opposes the majority of Countries BRICS, than is opposed to the exhortations of the insulare nations of the Pacific, the developed Countries and great part of the industry in order to develop a job program on which cuts of the emissions they would be necessary successively to the agreement of Paris"

Transport & Environment have emphasized that the Maritime general secretary of the International Organization is forced to take part appealing to the governments so that the progresses are not put in the drawer to complete after the agreement of Paris, while France has perceived that a failure in making to progress the plan would mean that the organism for the shipping of the United Nations "would have covered of ridicule the same day in which the agreement of Paris it is signed to New York".

"It is absolutely curious - the responsible for the field of the shipping has denounced of Transport & Environment, Bill Hemmings - than the IMO cannot yourself not even not be come to an agreement on the fact that the agreement on the climate of Paris will demand to the field of the marine transports to estimate what it must make in response".