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IMO: Hong Kong Convention must enter into force as soon as possible

by The Editorial Team
May 13, 2019
in Ship Recycling
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Ten years after the adoption of IMO’s Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, in May 2009, there has been progress with voluntary application of its requirements, but the treaty needs to enter into force for it to be widely implemented. For this reason, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim urged Member States who have not yet ratified the Convention, to do so, in order to bring it into force as soon as possible.

Kitack Lim made these remarks at an International Seminar on Ship Recycling: Towards the Early Entry into Force of the Hong Kong Convention (10 May). The seminar was organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan in cooperation with the IMO Secretariat.

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The seminar aims to highlight how to promote sustainable ship recycling and discuss what is necessary to move forward for the early entry into force of the Hong Kong Convention.

The Hong Kong Convention regards the design, construction, operation and maintenance of ships, and preparation for ship recycling in order to enable safe and environmentally sound recycling, without impacting the safety and operational efficiency of ships.

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According to the treaty, ships must carry an Inventory of Hazardous Materials, specific to each ship. In addition, ship recycling yards have to provide a ‘Ship Recycling Plan’, specific to each individual ship to be recycled, specifying the manner in which each ship will be recycled, based on its particulars and its inventory.

Secretary-General Lim highlighted the work already done by IMO to establish guidelines to help in implementation, with various awareness-raising workshops, training and other similar projects, These help build capacity in ship recycling countries and establish the conditions that will enable those which have not yet done so, to ratify or accede to the Convention.

Namely, the project on “Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling in Bangladesh” (SENSREC), funded by the Government of Norway and jointly implemented by IMO, the Government of Bangladesh and the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS), is in its second phase. It focuses on building the country’s institutional capacity and implementing the training materials based on Phase I. In the meantime, Japan has been working with relevant stakeholders to enhance ship recycling in South Asia.

As of now, the Hong Kong Convention has been ratified or acceded by eleven States: Belgium, Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Estonia, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Serbia and Turkey.

The combined merchant fleets of these eleven States constitute 23% of the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant fleet and their combined ship recycling volume constitutes about 1.6 million gross tonnage.

In order for the Convention to enter into force, it requires 15 States, 40% of the world’s merchant fleet and their ship recycling volume constituting not less than 3% of the gross tonnage of these contracting States’ merchant fleet.

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