The
Business Worldwide Magazine's (BWM) Most Innovative CEO in the Ship Recycling
Industry went to Henning Gramann of GSR Services GmbH.
Under
the auspices of Global Corporate Excellence, the Award was the result of the
green ship recycling company's ethics and innovations, together with its
success both at home and on an international level.
Gramann
established his company back in 2011 in order to improve recycling practices in
the dismantling of disused ships. There were already plenty of dangerous
activities within the industry when his company was formed, due to the fact
many ships washed up on beaches or were otherwise handled in an unsafe manner.
At the beach locations in particular the ships were often dismantled by workers
unskilled in the practice with the result there were high casualty figures -
some say that many of the statistics are featuring children.
A
secondary casualty was the environment itself where pollution was also big
negative factor in these locations.
A
spokesman for BWM congratulated Gramann on his win and added: "It's always
impressive to find a successful company with exemplary ethics such as GSR
Services. Aiming to improve the physical safety of individuals and the
environment is certainly something that should be highlighted and, I hope,
followed up by others in the industry."
Gramann's
company focuses on two main areas: (a) developing an Inventory of Hazardous
Materials for ships where the locations and types of hazardous materials
onboard are identified and (b) effective implementation of health, safety and
environmental protection in the ship recycling industry itself.
All
activities are in line with new legislation e.g. the 'International Hong Kong
Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships' (HKC) from
the International Maritime Organization and similar EU-Directives.
At
the moment the company is targeting ship recycling companies in India and its
surrounds and have also spent time working with colleagues from Japan. Gramann
bases his company's success on the fact that they can take care of the legal
compliance - in terms of health, safety and environment protection - for
companies when it comes to dismantling ships, as well as allowing those
companies to remain competitive in their marketplace.
In
the meantime Gramann maintains his company remains committed to 'quality,
rather than quantity.'
To
find out more about this German-based company's ethics and the sustainable
practices available to ship recyclers on an international level see
www.gsr-services.de
Contact
David
Jones
Awards
Department
E:
david.jones@bwmonline.com
W:
http://www.bwmonline.com
SOURCE Business Worldwide Magazine
Source:
pr
news wire. 05 December 2017
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