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Wirana Shipping Corporation has welcomed Maersk Line’s recent decision to
engage four Hong Kong Convention (HKC) compliant shipbreaking yards in Alang,
India to recycle ships.
Maersk Lines said
it acknowledged the efforts and investments undertaken by the four yards along
Alang beaches and decided to work with the yards for safe and environmentally
sound ship recycling practices.
Rakesh Khetan,
chief executive of Wirana, said this is a positive step in the right direction
and the Maersk decision will have a long term impact on motivating other yards
to worth towards HKC compliance.
Maersk Line pointed
out that its engagement is not restricted to the four HKC yards only but with
other yards intending to seek HKC compliance, improving local waste facilities
and hospitals and upgrading housing conditions for migrant workers.
The Hong Kong
International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of
ships, 2009 under the aegis of IMO was adopted at a diplomatic conference held
in Hong Kong. The text of HKC was developed over three and a half years with
input from IMO member states and relevant non-governmental organizations and in
cooperation with International Labour Organization (ILO) and the parties to
Basel Convention.
Wirana believed
that encouragement from shipowners such as Maersk Line would motivate more
yards to strive for HKC compliance and thus help counter one of the reasons for
delayed ratification of HKC by flag states with large fleets which is lack of
enough HKC compliant recycling facilities.
Source:
seatrade-maritime.
17 February 2016
http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/asia/wirana-welcomes-maersk-lines-shipbreaking-in-alang.html
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