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Confitarma, to widen the directory of the ship yards authorized from the EU to carry out activity of recycling of the ships
The Confederation emphasizes the importance to promote the Convention of Hong Kong of 2009
June 25, 2019
It is auspice of the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma), so as of shipowning association European ECSA, than the list of the ship yards authorized from the European Union to carry out activity of recycling of the ships it is widened. Taking part today to the Marine Station of Genoa, on board of the Bergamini frigate, to the convention "Ship recycling: practical, normative and contractual aspects" organized from the Law firm Siccardi Bregante & C. in collaboration with magazine "TTM - Technologies Transports Sea" in the within of Genoa Shipping Week, the naval foreman Technical, safety and atmosphere of Confitarma, Fabio Faraone, after to have restated the necessity of Maritime a total regulation that only the International Organization (IMO) can guarantee in order to avoid distortions of the competition, have illustrated the position supported from the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) that he considers of fundamental importance to promote ratifies it of the international Convention of Hong Kong of 2009 for the recycling of the ships sure and respectful of the atmosphere so that those dispositions are valid all over the world. "The Convention of Hong Kong - it has emphasized - is the only applicable international instrument in a position to supplying a meaningful regulation for the development of sustainable total structures of recycling".
Faranone has found that for this it is a lot important that the Member States of the EU, besides to ratify the Convention, collaborate with the EU commission so that all the marine countries are activated in such sense. Moreover Guinea fowls have remembered that the ECSA, than recently it has organized a mission near the plants of Alang in India, in order to understand more better which can be the risks and also the opportunities deriving from the recycling of the ships, has express asked the EU commission to widen the directory of the authorized ship yards to according to carry out activity of recycling of the ships of the regulations EU 1257/2013, list that today counts 34 systems.
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