the Spanish shipowners ask the IMO a "legislative truce" in order to allow with the shipping to put into effect the existing norms correctly



Maritime the Spanish shipowners ask the International Organization (IMO), the United Nation that he supervises to international marine navigation, to put into effect a momentary suspension of the legislative activity so as to allow with the industry of the shipping of recepire and compying totally to the norms currently in vigor.

In its relation to the shareholders' meeting of the Asociación de Navieros Españoles (Anave) holding Wednesday to Madrid, addressing to Federico Trillo-Figueroa y Martínez-Conde, ambassador of Spain near the United Kingdom and president of the shareholders' meeting of the IMO, the president of the Spanish shipowning association, Alejandro Aznar, it has evidenced as the results of the norms introduced from the International Maritime Organization are "absolutely encouraging" and, joking, in the light of these results it has exhorted Trill and the entire IMO "to take a deserved rest". Beaten besides, Aznar it has explained that "it would be worth it to establish a kind of legislative truce so that all the States and the interested parts have the time to pull the breath and to concentrate not as well as on the normative modifications how much on the corrected application of the existing norms".

Moreover the president of the Anave has emphasized the particular impact on the marine transport short beam of many of the new norms introduced mainly for the transoceanico traffic and to such purpose he has proposed to the president of the assembly of the IMO "the creation of a sottocommissione with the task to analyze the impact of every new norm on the short sea shipping".

Stopping itself on state of health of the fleet of Spanish flag, Aznar has explained that the contraction of the Spanish mercantile fleet which reached the ninth consecutive year is cause of the loss of competitiveness in the Special Registry of Canaries (REC) and has emphasized the "necessity to strengthen the relative competitiveness of the REC for a total resumption of the Spanish fleet and of the occupation, a objective that we know is realizable", it has supported referring to the positive effect of the measures assumed from Portugal for its registry of Madeira.

In opening of the assembly the Anave has conferred prize CARUS Excellence Award 2016 to the managing director of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi, Emanuele Grimaldi, "for its engagement for the excellence in the field of the transports and its determining contribution to the increase of the marine field in Europe", acknowledgment that is delivered to Mario Massarotti, general manager of Grimaldi España in representation of the managing director of the partenopeo group.