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Danish Shipowners Association is working with the minister of environment Kirsten Brosbøl (S) for the EU to adopt a general requirement for stricter controls on ships’ fuel. The requirement cis connected with the sulfur directive, which will go into force very soon. The Sulphur Directive could mean an additional expenditure of nearly 600,000 kroner for a single voyage. “So if the new requirements are not followed up with effective control, weak persons are tempted to proceed as before to the detriment of both the environment and the law-abiding companies. This must not happen. We must make sure that the ships are checked – both in Danish and international waters,” was said in a joint statement from Kirsten Brosbøl and Director of the Danish Shipowners Association Anne H. Steffensen. The Ministry of Environment will provide contracts for surveillance of ships sailing through Danish waters. Checks will happen from bridges and from the air. But Danish unilateralism will do no good, so it is important for international cooperation among environmental authorities and shipping companies. “We work for the EU to adopt a general requirement for stricter controls on ships’ fuel. The minister of environment has written to her counterparts around the Baltic ...

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Cyprus, Denmark Nominated for IMO Position

Denmark's official green brand, State of Green, is now launching a new theme on its website focusing on green maritime solutions

Danish Maritime Days is an open global platform for collaboration across the maritime industry. More than 50 events are already planned in the days from 6-10 October

Exemptions from the forthcoming ballast-water convention for ferries When the IMO's environment committee, the MEPC, next meets in October, exemptions from the forthcoming ballast-water convention for ferries and others will be discussed at Denmark's behest.Danish shipping companies have invested billions of kroner in green technology in recent years and are prepared to make even greater investments as a result of forthcoming environmental regulation measures. But regulation must benefit the environment or else the investment becomes meaningless.This applies to ballast water, an area in which the international IMO convention is expected to receive the required support this year, enabling it to enter into force 12 months later.As the land lies currently, the convention will cover all international shipping, including, therefore, for example, the 4 km-long ferry route between Helsingør in Denmark and Helsingborg in Sweden.The legislation makes good sense for long international routes, but not for ferry traffic and other small-scale local shipping, according to Peter Olsen, who is Head of Secretariat for the Danish Car Ferry Association, and responsible for ballast water at the Shipowners' Associations."There is a risk of imposing a financial burden of several million kroner per ship without there being any demonstrated risk presented by spreading seawater ...

The number of ships sailing under the Danish flag has reached a new high, new data from the Danish Shipowners' Association shows

Thome Ship Management has reached a new milestone by taking over the full management of its first vessel to be flagged under the Danish International Ship Register.

Danish-Chinese cooperation in the maritime field was strengthened further when the Ministry of Business and Growth concluded a cooperation agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Shipowner liability on the horizon The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal Wrecks will enter into force on 14 April 2015 following the deposit, on 14 April 2014, of an instrument of ratification by Denmark, with the International Maritime Organization (IMO).Among several provisions, the Convention will place financial responsibility for the removal of certain hazardous wrecks on shipowners, making insurance, or some other form of financial security, compulsory.Denmark became the 10th country to ratify the convention, thereby triggering its entry into force exactly 12 months later.The Convention will fill a gap in the existing international legal framework by providing the first set of uniform international rules aimed at ensuring the prompt and effective removal of wrecks located beyond a country's territorial sea. The Convention also contains a clause that enables States Parties to opt in' to apply certain provisions to their territory, including their territorial sea.The Convention will provide a sound legal basis for States to remove, or have removed, shipwrecks that may have the potential to affect adversely the safety of lives, goods and property at sea, as well as the marine and coastal environment. It will make shipowners financially liable and require them to take out insurance or ...