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Asian shipowners have
stressed a simple ship recycling procedures
should be established in order to achieve smooth
transfer of ships to recycling facilities.
At the Asian shipowners Shipowners’ Forum (ASF)
Ship Recycling Committee (SRC) meeting in
Jakarta recently the owners stressed a simple
ship recycling procedures should be established
in order to achieve smooth transfer of ships to
recycling facilities.
The 11th interim meeting which attended by
nineteen delegates from the ASF member
associations of Asean, China, Chinese Taipei,
Japan and Korea noted that safe and
environmentally sound ship recycling should be
actively pursued as joint efforts by all
stakeholders such as ship recycling facilities,
shipowners, shipbuilders, ship equipment
manufacturers and governments concerned.
Malaysia was represented by Malaysian Shipowners’
Association’s vice chairman, Datuk Ir Abdul hak
Md Amin and the executive secretary of MASA,
Capt Intiaz Hussein.
The Committee noted that the trial of
development of Inventories of ships was being
carried out by the Japanese Government in
accordance with the draft Guidelines for the
Development of the Inventory of Hazardous
Materials. The revised draft Inventory
Guidelines developed based on the results of the
trial will be submitted to MEPC58.
Although the SRC recognized the great importance
of developing a common format for the Inventory
of Hazardous Materials, the Committee, at the
same time, confirmed that preparation of the
Inventory would need full-scale involvement of
governments, classification societies,
shipbuilders and ship equipment manufacturers
who have specialized knowledge of the
construction of and equipment fitted to ships
because of lack of adequate resources and
expertise of shipowners to prepare the
Inventory.
The Committee chaired by Arnold Wang, who is
also the President of the Evergreen Marine
Corporation also expressed its concern that the
ISO 30000 series, which mainly deal with
management, operation, audit and third party
certification of recycling facility overlaps the
activities of the IMO towards the development of
the Convention and its Guidelines. |
