Smedegaard (ECSA): necessary a global approach to the reduction of the emissions of co2 of the ships



The measures of reduction of the emissions of co2 must be assumed to total level and, in the field of the shipping, they must be applied in the same measure to all the ships. It has emphasized today the president of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), Niels Smedegaard, in the course of a symposium on the contribution of the marine transport to the decarbonizzazione organized from the association of the shipowners Belgian and from the Wärtsilä group that has held to Antwerp.

"We - the president of the association of the European shipowners has explained - consider that the shipping, with all the other industrial fields, must be part of the solution in order to limit the increase of the total temperature since we sure bring a contribution to the carbon emissions. However - it has specified Smedegaard - the general objective must be a total agreement for the marine emissions, towards which the International Maritime Organization (IMO is going). Adopting its regulations MRV on the monitoring, the communication and the verification of the emissions of co2 of the marine transport - it has observed the president of the ECSA - the European Union has given proof of leadership. Now our objective would have to be turned to the necessity to guarantee the correct application of the regulations MRV and to assess that the regulations are aligned with the system of collection of the data of the IMO, that it will be formalized in October of this year. This will do so as that the shipping European he will be subordinate to an only system, in efficient way, without having to tackle to a double quantity job".

"The EU commission - it has continued Smedegaard - has not included the shipping in its current review of the European system of exchange of the emission quotas. We consider that this reflects the truth, that is that the marine transport is a total business and that correctly regional measures would have a directed distorsivo impact on the European operators. A regional regime - it has emphasized the president of the European shipowners - would lead to the offshoring of the carbon emissions since the ships would begin to avoid to call in the ports of the EU. It would have also a serious impact to us on the European field of the short sea shipping that once again it would have to be confronted with an exclusively European system".