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The EU commission has updated the directory of the authorized systems to the recycling of the ships
It includes 26 yards, between which the Saint George Italian of the Port and three European structures
December 17, 2018
In recent days the EU commission has updated the directory of the systems of recycling of the ships instituted with the regulations n. 1257/2013 that will take effect next 31 December. The directory, regarding the first list of 18 authorized plants defined two years ago(on 22 December 2016), now it includes 26 navalmeccaniche societies, between which the Saint George Italian of the Port, with center to Genoa.
Moreover the directory comprises the Belgian NV Galloo Recycling Ghent, the Danish Fornæs ApS, Modern American Recycling Services Europe (M.A.R.S) and Smedegaarden A/S, Estonian OÜ BLRT Refonda Baltic, Spanish DDR Vessels XXI, S.L., the French Démonaval Recycling, Gardet & De Bezenac Recycling/Groupe Baudelet Envioronnement - GIE MUG, Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux and Les Recycleurs bretons, Latvian A/S "Tosmares kugubuvetava", Lithuanians UAB APK, UAB Armar and UAB Vakaru refonda, the Dutch Keppel-Verolme and Scheepssloperij Nederland B.V., the Navalria Portuguese - Docas, Construções and Reparações Navais, the Finn Turun Korjaustelakka Oy (Turku Repair Ltd Yard), and British the Able UK Limited, Dales Marine Services Ltd, Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd. Limited and Swansea Drydock Ltd.
Moreover the list includes also three situated systems of recycling in Third-country, that is Turkey with the yards Leyal Gemi Sokum Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. and Leyal-Demtas Gemi Sokum Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S and United states with the yard International Shipbreaking Limited L.L.C.
The regulations establish that all the ships that fly flag of States of the European Union and that they must be demolished, will have to be dismantled in systems included in this directory that must respect a series of environmental requirement and prevention of the professional risks.
The directory will continue to being dawned in order to add the structures that they will demonstrate to satisfy these requirement or in order to revoke the authorization to the yards that will stop to respect them. Currently the EU commission has received request of inclusion in this directory by 24 European systems.
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In recent days the EU commission has updated the directory of the systems of recycling of the ships instituted with the regulations n. 1257/2013 that will take effect next 31 December. The directory, regarding the first list of 18 authorized plants defined two years ago
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
