Pakistan is a step nearer to changing into a celebration to the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (Hong Kong Convention).
Following an IMO-run nationwide seminar in Karachi, Pakistan, (November 13-15) to assist the nation’s implementation of the Convention and associated tips, the Pakistan (Federal) Cabinet accomplished the processes wanted to organize the instrument of accession to the conference.
The seminar was hosted by Pakistan’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs. Delegates included 97 members from varied ministries in Pakistan, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Labour Organization (ILO), in addition to classification societies and ship recycling yards.
Pakistan’s Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Maritime Affairs, Vice Admiral (Retd.) Iftikhar Ahmad Rao, reaffirmed his authorities’s efforts to safe Pakistan’s early accession to the Hong Kong Convention.
Pakistan is without doubt one of the world’s prime 5 ship recycling nations. Its ratification and implementation of the Hong Kong Convention will contribute considerably in the direction of greener and extra sustainable ship recycling worldwide, says the IMO.
The Hong Kong Convention goals to make sure that ships on the finish of their operational lives are recycled safely and with out posing pointless dangers to human well being and the setting by putting tasks and obligations on all events involved – shipowners, ship constructing yards, ship recycling services, flag states, port states, recycling states. The Convention will enter into pressure on June 26, 2025.
The seminar was funded by the China by means of the IMO’s Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme.
