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OPEN FORUM FORUM OUVERT OPEN FORUM FORUM OUVERT Wat te denken van…? Que penser de…? A NEED TO CONNECT WITH SHIPPING _________ If one is a regional or national politician, it is very easy to make a great deal of noise about the atmospheric pollution allegedly emitted by shipping. The chances are that shipping around one’s coasts will be mostly foreign owned and even if it flies the national ensign, it will not be too much of a problem to demonise it in the eyes of a gullible public. It would not be like taking on the motoring lobbies, which could bite back with their own campaigns and threaten the withdrawal of political support. Shipping is a far easier target. Politicians wishing to load shipping with new regulations on emissions can be assured that the general public probably will not associate the costs of goods in their shops with the enormous costs borne by marine transport having to comply with new emission regulations. It is not like a “green tax” on energy bills or an additional hike on petrol and gasoil prices, which are directly punishing the end user and will be bitterly resented. The costs loaded on shipping will be “indirect” and unseen by the voters who unwittingly depend on shipping for their food and fuel. All of which makes shipping a very tempting target. Politicians, like the greener members of the European Parliament or the regulators of the European Commission, sometimes treat shipping as if it was discretionary, or a sort of luxury item which one did not really have to use. They can stand up and make wild and emotive statements about the way in which people who live close to coasts have their health menaced by the emissions of passing ships. They cannot and do not make any effort to substantiate absurd claims about the “health benefits” of up to 34 billion Euros which would be brought to these suffering populations by reducing sulphur to 0.1% by 2020. How on earth can such a figure be arrived at, and how could such savings ever be proved? The targeting of this industry by zealous campaigners is not disconnected to the way that shipping has fallen out of the public view; an industry which, in awareness terms, is largely over the horizon and more vulnerable than one that remains visible. So a politician seeking attention or a campaigner with a cause to promote can mount an attack on the shipping industry in the knowledge that he or she will have their words assiduously published by a press no better informed than they are, for the benefit of a public unlikely to contradict this view. The shipping industry will be accused of “delaying tactics” when it fails to leap to attention and rush to comply with the ridiculous demands of colossal costs in impossible timescales. Its reasonable objections will be taken as evidence that the industry is an irredeemable polluter, playing fast and loose with the health of the general public. It is then up to the industry to try and respond to these hysterical accusations in a way that does not play into the hands of its accusers. In a reasonable and rational world, the very considerable efforts of the industry to design more energy efficient and thus more environmentally friendly ships would be a perfectly reasonable answer to these unreasonable demands. There is, after all, little to be ashamed of in the astonishing technical progress that continues to be made, and which is largely financed out of the modest profits that shipping companies make. There is so much that the industry can be genuinely proud of, from its technical advances to the operational improvements which are being made constantly. But the world, it often seems, is neither rational nor reasonable, which is why an industry that is so essential to most people on this planet has to work so hard to defend itself. Source: BIMCO Excerpt from Maritime Press Clippings – 10.03.12 De redactie aanvaardt met dank alle commentaar op de artikels onder de rubriek “Open Forum” La rédaction accepte avec reconnaissance tous commentaires concernant les articles sous la rubrique « Forum Ouvert » Nautilus, april 2012 121
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