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Emanuele Grimaldi is elected vice-president of the International Chamber of Shipping
It is an explicit acknowledgment - the president of the Italian shipowners has declared - to the acts of Confitarma and therefore to the role of the national armament
May 11, 2017
The Shipping president of the Confederation Italian (Confitarma), Emanuele Grimaldi, is elected vice-president of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the main international association of the shipowning industry, based in London, to which they join navigation companies and coming associations give beyond 37 countries and represent all the sections of marine navigation with beyond 80% of the world-wide fleet.
"To be elected to the summits of this important organization - Grimaldi has declared - it is for me reason of great pride not only from the personal point of view, but also and above all because this is an explicit acknowledgment by the shipping world-wide to the acts of Confitarma and therefore to the role of the Italian armament that, in spite of the crisis that prolongeds by now from almost ten years, has demonstrated to know to face with courage and determination the crisis of the marine markets, continuing technologically to navigate on the seas of the world with a young fleet and advance, maintaining positions of great relief in the world-wide ranking".
"In a moment in which the shipping it must face great challenges, above all in environmental field - it has added the president of Confitarma - it is of fundamental importance to be able to be present in an international assembly where are elaborated the marine strategies, deepening thematic operating, lawyers, of the marine job, the best practice and the development of the sustainable marine transport".
"Without to count - it has concluded Grimaldi - than the ICS it is in contact with the majority of the international and intergovernmental institutions, in the within of which decisions are adopted that affect world-wide the marine industry, to begin from the IMO".
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