DNV GL, the globe’s leading category culture, has actually released brand-new assistance on reusing to assist shipowners browse a regulative setting that is coming to be significantly complicated. With the IMO Hong Kong Convention not yet active, rigorous enforcement of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation (EU SRR) and also the EU Waste Shipment Regulation (EU WSR) indicates shipowners should meticulously prepare for completion of life of their vessels.
Shipowners seeking to make educated, financial and also liable choices concerning just how to handle vessels at the end of their lifecycles encounter a much more stringent and also extra complicated collection of global, local, and also nationwide needs than in the past.
With regulatory authorities targeting shipowners with substantial punitive damages, also criminal offenses, shipowners require a cautious and also thought about technique for taking care of ship recycling of their vessels.
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“Ship recycling is an area where we can see significant pressure building in our industry, both from regulators, wider stakeholder groups, and the public,” claimed Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, Chief Executive Officer of DNV GL–Maritime “This means that ensuring compliance is essential for shipowners looking to protect their reputations and businesses while building trust that their vessels are recycled in a safe and sustainable manner.”
The brand-new assistance: “SHIP RECYCLING: NAVIGATING A COMPLEX REGULATORY LANDSCAPE”, intends to provide a far better basis for choices on the recycling of vessels. It lays out the major recycling alternatives, the lawful, reputational and also economic threats, and also offers a procedure that can assist to evaluate whether a private backyard is most likely to accomplish reusing to an appropriate degree, according to identified policies and also criteria. This procedure has actually been created by DNV GL to offer proprietors a layout for activity, in the lack of worldwide approved qualifications outside the EU plan, when they are taking care of backyards, out the EU accepted listing.
“Recent cases have shown that without a clear awareness of the risks within the complex regulatory landscape that surrounds recycling, shipowners can find themselves facing major financial and opportunity losses,” states Jannicke Eide Fredriksen, DNV GL–Maritime “With this new guidance, DNV GL is working to support shipowners in their decisions, by setting out the standards involved and the many critical factors to consider, primarily when dealing with yards that are not included on the EU approved list.”
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