The Danish government will present a road map regarding
the IMO's Hong Kong Convention that concerns ship recycling early next year,
said Berit Hallam, deputy head of division at the Danish Ministry of
Environment and Food.
A number of issues need to be clarified before the
government can go ahead with the ratification of the Convention, she told a
conference that is part of Danish Maritime Days. These include bringing the
Danish regulations in line with the latest relevant European Union regulations
and making sure that there would not be unnecessary regulation.
Of the ships that are recycled 60% are beached.
"It is not good that only a few countries have ratified the Hong Kong
Convention - and I am not proud over the fact that Denmark hasn't ratified it
yet," said Anne H Steffensen, director general of the Danish Shipowners'
Association, who spoke at the same event.
Ingvild Jensen, founder of the Shipbreaking Platform
NGO, said Norwegian Shipowners' Association (NSA) had done good work by
discouraging its members from using beaching as a method to recycle ships. She
urged their Danish counterpart to team up with the Norwegians to work in the
European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) to promote the NSA protocol,
but instead of discouraging the use of beaching, they should urge European
owners to only use yards listed by the European Commission as acceptable in
terms of environmental and working conditions.
Source: HIS Maritime.
05 October 2015
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