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The ICS renews the invitation to eliminate the aids to the shipbuilding one that distort the market
Bennett: although he exists give beyond 50 years, is daunting that the Working Party on Shipbuilding has completed still little progresses
November 21, 2017
The marine transport must be economically sustainable if its environmental sustainability is wanted to be assured also. Evidenced the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the association of the shipowners and the world-wide operators of the shipping, being confronted with the governmental representatives within the Concil Working Party on Shipbuilding of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop (OECD) in occasion of the "Workshop on Green Maritime Growth of held Industries" yesterday in the within of the Ocean Economy organized Week from the OECD, event that will be concluded tomorrow to Paris.
"The continuous challenge which the shipowners must tackle - has explained the director of the Policies of the ICS, Simon Bennett - it is constituted by the ability excess, that it is supported and favorite by the governmental aids and the measures of support that encourage the ship yards to construct ships that are exceeding regarding the question. If the governments are seriously disposed to help the field of the marine transport to achieve the objectives of the United Nations for a sustainable development, the OECD must complete new efforts in order to obtain a total agreement on the elimination from the segment of the shipbuilding of the measures of distortion of the market. Although it exists give beyond fifty years - Bennett has denounced - is daunting that the Working Party on Shipbuilding has completed still little progresses and that the last cycle of negotiates for a new agreement of the OECD is suspended various years ago".
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