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The Environmental Performance of Shipping Challenges and Prospects

The Environmental Performance of Shipping Challenges and Prospects. Shipping and the Law – Naples, 4 October 2013 Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General. Overview. Introduction Air emissions Ship recycling Ballast water Concluding remarks. 1. Introduction. 2. Air emissions. Sulphur:

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The Environmental Performance of Shipping Challenges and Prospects

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  1. The Environmental Performance of Shipping Challenges and Prospects Shipping and the Law – Naples, 4 October 2013 Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General

  2. Overview • Introduction • Air emissions • Ship recycling • Ballast water • Concluding remarks

  3. 1. Introduction

  4. 2. Air emissions • Sulphur: • SECA: 1 January 2015 is approaching fast • What will fuel market be like (availability/price)? • Transition period and support for conversion vital • Carbon: • EU MRV proposal useful step towards intl solution • MRV tool must be simple, accurate and easy • Nitrogen: • NECA: how to avoid the SECA pitfall?

  5. 3. Ship recycling • Int’l framework: 2009 IMO Hong Kong Convention • European framework: 2013 EURegulation • Introduction of EU ship recycling fund avoided • European Commission to make proposal on the feasibility of a financial incentive mechanism • Industry initiatives

  6. www.offthebeach.org

  7. 4. Ballast water • Int’l framework: 2004 IMO Convention – ratification process almost completed • IMO Resolution to ease implementation • EU framework: focus on limiting invasions of alien species • Shipowner concerns: • Need for exemptions in case of low risk • Type approval process treatment systems

  8. 5. Concluding remarks • Policy perception of shipping: from solution to problem • Shipping lobby increasingly in the defensive corner • Shipping is a global industry: tensions between EU and international aspirations must beresolved • But trend towardsregionalmeasures in IMO equallydeplorable • Trend towardsregulatingwithout impact assessmenteven more so • Key questions: • How can shipping be on top of the environmentaldebateagain? • How can shipping counter the negative perception thatitunjustlyportrays?

  9. Patrick Verhoeven – Secretary GeneralEuropean Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA)Hertogstraat 67/2 Rue Ducale – B-1000 Brussel / Bruxelles+ 32 2 510 61 26 – patrick.verhoeven@ecsa.eu – www.ecsa.euFollow me on Twitter @PVerhoevenECSA

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