Unity, realism required in global shipping

Calls for unity and sustainability successful shipping person prevailed successful the speeches heard astatine the biennial Maritime Cyprus just that concludes connected Wednesday successful Limassol.

“We’re looking to person a conscionable and equitable transition successful shipping. We tin lone bash that if we travel together astatine IMO. And we absorption not lone connected the greenish biology docket that usually hits the headlines; we absorption connected safety, which is 1 of the halfway areas,” International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said successful his speech connected Monday.

He reminded that shipping will proceed to turn annually by astir 2% for the adjacent 5 years, according to the United Nations Trade and Development Maritime Review, and referred to further challenges to which the effect is working for planetary implementations of regulations. Addressing the participants, Dominguez called connected them to work together successful moving guardant “with a planetary regularisation that is going to let us to support the planetary assemblage when it comes to shipping.”

“We request sustainable shipping, environmentally and economically. To bash this, the applicable agreements indispensable beryllium adapted accordingly,”  stressed Greek Minister of Shipping and Island Policy Vasilis Kikilias. As helium said, “Europe does not person time. Globally, things are evolving and the decisions that will beryllium taken present indispensable beryllium realistic successful the agelong term for the shipping industry.”

Referring to the transition to greenish shipping, helium said: “We hold connected the framework, but we want realism. LNG has proven its reliability and indispensable beryllium used arsenic a transitional fuel. We still bash not person the zero- oregon near-zero-emission fuels, not adjacent to attack the simplification targets of the coming decade. The transition costs are very precocious and a important portion of them indispensable instrumentality to the shipping manufacture and the corresponding infrastructure.”

Finally, connected Tuesday Cyprus Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanolis and the curate of transport of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Thani, signed a memorandum of understanding successful the fields of practice connected education, infrastructure, arsenic well arsenic the greenish transition of shipping. 

This MoU, Hadjimanolis explained, chiefly concerns the speech of know-how connected issues astir naval training, registers and decarbonization, arsenic well arsenic larboard infrastructure and logistics.