INTERCARGO acknowledges the technical and operational measures adopted at MEPC 76, but warns that there can be no compromise when it comes to safety.
More specifically, Dimitris Fafalios, Chairman of INTERCARGO, noted the measures adopted by IMO thus far, “but must remind the industry that bulk carriers are highly efficient, and already operate within very tightly defined technical and operational parameters.”
Bulk operators are faced with the very real dilemma of determining exactly how to further improve the operational performance of already efficient ships, especially following adoption of the technological solutions currently available
Mr. Fafalios also added that imposing extra technical and operational constraints beyond given limits that cannot be overridden in practice, “inevitably brings forward safety considerations that cannot be ignored.”
As for INTERCARGO, it said that it will be closely looking into these safety dimensions associated with shipping’s decarbonisation and will bring them forward to IMO’s Committees as needed for their due consideration.
