Continuing its Shipping Certification Campaign,United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) on W ednesday called on the China Classification Society (CCS) to stop certifying Iranian vessels.
CCS reportedly surveys tankers of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), and has provided certification coverage to the NITC’sDarab andJustice vessels.
The prominent shipping servicesBureau Veritas,Germanischer Lloyd, theRussian Maritime Register of Shipping, theKorean Register of Shipping, andClassNK all recently stopped certifying Iranian vessels in response to UANI. CCS stands out as an outlier among certification services.
In a letter sent this week to Sun Licheng, Chairman & President of CCS, UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, wrote:
”United Against Nuclear Iran (“UANI”) is writing to express its concern about China Classification Society’s (“CCS”) business activities with Iran. By providing certification and other maritime services to Iranian vessels owned by sanctioned entities, CCS is directly facilitating the ability of the Iranian regime to circumvent multilateral sanctions that have been imposed to prevent it from further developing its illegal nuclear weapons program.”
Source: unitedagainstnucleariran
