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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh have signed a landmark agreement to work together to improve safety and environmental standards in the country's ship-recycling industry. A Memorandum of Understanding formalizing the cooperation between the two was signed by Mr Nicolaos Charalambous, Director, Technical Cooperation Division, IMO and Mr Md. Ashadul Islam, Additional Secretary, Economic Relations Division of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh, on 10 April 2014. IMO and Bangladesh will jointly implement a project entitled "Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling in Bangladesh - Phase I". With an annual gross tonnage capacity of more than 8.8 million, the Bangladesh ship recycling industry is one of the world's most important, second only to neighbouring India in terms of volume. The project, aimed at improving standards and sustainability within the industry, will consist of five work packages, covering studies on economic and environmental impacts and on the management of hazardous materials and wastes, recommendations on strengthening the Government's One-Stop Service (in which all the various ministries with a responsibility for ship recycling - e.g. Industries, Environment, Labour, Shipping - offer a single point of contact for related matters), a review ...

Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling in Bangladesh The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh have signed a landmark agreement to work together to improve safety and environmental standards in the country's ship-recycling industry.A Memorandum of Understanding formalizing the cooperation between the two was signed by Mr Nicolaos Charalambous, Director, Technical Cooperation Division, IMO and Mr Md. Ashadul Islam, Additional Secretary, Economic Relations Division of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh, on 10 April 2014.IMO and Bangladesh will jointly implement a project entitled "Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling in Bangladesh - Phase I". With an annual gross tonnage capacity of more than 8.8 million, the Bangladesh ship recycling industry is one of the world's most important, second only to neighbouring India in terms of volume.The project, aimed at improving standards and sustainability within the industry, will consist of five work packages, covering studies on economic and environmental impacts and on the management of hazardous materials and wastes, recommendations on strengthening the Government's One-Stop Service (in which all the various ministries with a responsibility for ship recycling - e.g. Industries, Environment, Labour, Shipping - offer a single point of contact ...

The International Maritime Organization has issued its online magazine, IMO News Magazine 2014 - issue 1

IMO and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to work together to improve standards in the country's ship-recycling industry

The global shipping industry - represented by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, World Shipping Council (WSC), CLIA and IPTA - has voiced continuing concern about serious implementation problems associated with the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention. At last week's IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), governments decided neither to discuss in full nor to resolve these pivotal issues on which industry had made a detailed written submission. The industry submission addressed concerns about the lack of robustness of the current IMO type-approval process for the expensive new treatment equipment, the criteria to be used for sampling ballast water during Port State Control inspections and the need for 'grandfathering' of existing type-approved equipment that has already been fitted. However, governments decided not to address these proposals until after the Convention has entered into force (which has not yet occurred due to a lack of member State ratifications). The industry concerns were shared by a number of flag States (including some that ratified the Convention in the early years after its adoption) but rather than agreeing to a 'road map' that would have demonstrated IMO's commitment to addressing the concerns, the MEPC instead decided to look into ...

The global shipping industry to focus on serious implementation problems re BWM Convention The global shipping industry - represented by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, World Shipping Council (WSC), CLIA and IPTA - has voiced continuing concern about serious implementation problems associated with the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.At last week's IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), governments decided neither to discuss in full nor to resolve these pivotal issues on which industry had made a detailed written submission.The industry submission addressed concerns about the lack of robustness of the current IMO type-approval process for the expensive new treatment equipment, the criteria to be used for sampling ballast water during Port State Control inspections and the need for 'grandfathering' of existing type-approved equipment that has already been fitted. However, governments decided not to address these proposals until after the Convention has entered into force (which has not yet occurred due to a lack of member State ratifications).The industry concerns were shared by a number of flag States (including some that ratified the Convention in the early years after its adoption) but rather than agreeing to a 'road map' that would have demonstrated IMO's commitment to ...

  The 66th session of The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) met from 31 March to 4 April 2014, at IMO Headquarters in London. The Committee adopted amendments to the MARPOL Convention to set a date for the implementation of "Tier III" standards within emission control areas (ECAs) and to make the IMO Member State Audit Scheme mandatory; reviewed environmental provisions in the draft Polar Code and associated draft amendments to make the Code mandatory, and discussed the implementation of energy-efficiency regulations and the Ballast Water Management and Ship Recycling Conventions. Amendment on implementation date for Tier III adopted The MEPC adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, regulation 13, on Nitrogen Oxides (NOX), concerning the date for the implementation of "Tier III" standards within emission control areas (ECAs). The amendments provide for the Tier III NOx standards to be applied to a marine diesel engine that is installed on a ship constructed on or after 1 January 2016 and which operates in the North American Emission Control Area or the U.S. Caribbean Sea Emission Control Area that are designated for the control of NOx emissions. In addition, the Tier III requirements would apply to ...

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets for its 66th session from 31 March to 4 April 2014, at IMO Headquarters in London. During this meeting, IMO abandoned the fixed start date for new NOx emissions control areas (NECAs), which require an 80% cut in NOx from new ships sailing in specially designated zones. Instead, the IMO will replace the 2016 application date with flexible provisions for any NECAs established after that date. Transport & Environment (T&E) deplores this rushed-through decision, as it will negatively impact on the environment and the health of Europeans. NOx from shipping in Europe is set to exceed all land-based sources combined by 2020. The law on NECAs was adopted unanimously by the IMO in 2008 and last year the organisation's expert review found NOx control system technology was available and that the global regulation should proceed on schedule in 2016. Yet this change - to allow the existing North American NECA affecting newly-built ships to go ahead at that time but to have subsequent NECA start dates decided separately - was adopted without any assessment of its impact. The rushed process also ignored MARPOL requirements that substantive amendments ...

From 31 March to 4 April 2014, at IMO Headquarters The 66th session of The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) met from 31 March to 4 April 2014, at IMO Headquarters in London.The Committee adopted amendments to the MARPOL Convention to set a date for the implementation of "Tier III" standards within emission control areas (ECAs) and to make the IMO Member State Audit Scheme mandatory; reviewed environmental provisions in the draft Polar Code and associated draft amendments to make the Code mandatory, and discussed the implementation of energy-efficiency regulations and the Ballast Water Management and Ship Recycling Conventions.Amendment on implementation date for Tier III adoptedThe MEPC adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, regulation 13, on Nitrogen Oxides (NOX), concerning the date for the implementation of "Tier III" standards within emission control areas (ECAs).The amendments provide for the Tier III NOx standards to be applied to a marine diesel engine that is installed on a ship constructed on or after 1 January 2016 and which operates in the North American Emission Control Area or the U.S. Caribbean Sea Emission Control Area that are designated for the control of NOx emissions.In addition, the Tier III ...

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets for its 66th session from 31 March to 4 April 2014, at IMO Headquarters in London.