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Mon, 07/21/2008 - 09:41
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IMO to rule vessel dismantlement to be done at designated facilities
TOKYO, July 21 Kyodo - The International Maritime Organization is expected to oblige vessels traveling in international seaways to use designated facilities when they are broken up, with the aim of preventing environmental pollution and health damage from untidy dismantlement, sources close to the matter said Saturday.
A draft treaty on vessel recycling obtained by Kyodo News calls for commercial ocean vessels that weigh more than 500 tons to be dismantled at certain facilities authorized by contracting countries and to carry a list of anyharmful materials aboard.
The London-based organization, the U.N. agency responsible for improving maritime safety, aims to adopt the treaty at its meeting in Hong Kong in May2009, and to put it into effect in 2012.
In Bangladesh and other developing countries, vessels are often broken up for scrap on beaches without covering the ships, leading harmful materials such asoil waste to flow into the sea.
Against this backdrop, the IMO has decided to introduce such a treaty to protect maritime environments, in addition to the current nonbindingguidelines.
Most of Japan's 2,300 ocean vessels are expected to be subject to the treaty of 21 articles. There are about 95,000 ocean vessels weighing 100 tons or more in the world, and it is uncertain how many of them will be subject to theregulation.
Dismantlement of old vessels is expected to accelerate globally. The volume of scrap steel to be generated from vessel dismantlement is expected to more than double to 6 million tons in the next 10 years or so, according to industryanalysts.
==Kyodo
A draft treaty on vessel recycling obtained by Kyodo News calls for commercial ocean vessels that weigh more than 500 tons to be dismantled at certain facilities authorized by contracting countries and to carry a list of anyharmful materials aboard.
The London-based organization, the U.N. agency responsible for improving maritime safety, aims to adopt the treaty at its meeting in Hong Kong in May2009, and to put it into effect in 2012.
In Bangladesh and other developing countries, vessels are often broken up for scrap on beaches without covering the ships, leading harmful materials such asoil waste to flow into the sea.
Against this backdrop, the IMO has decided to introduce such a treaty to protect maritime environments, in addition to the current nonbindingguidelines.
Most of Japan's 2,300 ocean vessels are expected to be subject to the treaty of 21 articles. There are about 95,000 ocean vessels weighing 100 tons or more in the world, and it is uncertain how many of them will be subject to theregulation.
Dismantlement of old vessels is expected to accelerate globally. The volume of scrap steel to be generated from vessel dismantlement is expected to more than double to 6 million tons in the next 10 years or so, according to industryanalysts.
==Kyodo
