The global environmental maritime congress (gmec), a high-calibre summit meeting of the maritime industry organised by Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC), came to a successful conclusion yesterday (Wednesday).
The programme of the...
The global environmental maritime congress (gmec), a high-calibre summit meeting of the maritime industry organised by Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC), came to a successful conclusion yesterday (Wednesday).
The programme of the first ever global environmental meeting of this kind included stock taking of the current state of environmental protection efforts, and impressive presentations of current and future developments.
“Setting the green course” was the slogan of the global maritime environmental congress (gmec) held in Hamburg on 7 and 8 September.
The participants at this conference all agreed that the slogan could hardly have been better chosen – “This event marks a historic moment, because we can see now how a whole industry is taking up the environmental challenges together, and developing solutions to take us into the future,” said Bernd Aufderheide, President and CEO Hamburg Messe und Congress.
There were 52 speakers in 5 panels, making presentations to participants from 36 countries, to analyse the current environmental status of shipping and to show possible solutions for better protection of the maritime environment, coastal regions and ports. With such vitally important subjects on the agenda, the organiser succeeded in attracting the most eminent speakers. These industry experts included the three gmec Chairmen – Micky Arison, Chairman and CEO, Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator (Cunard, Costa Cruises, AIDA); Dr. Corrado Antonini, Chairman Fincantieri; and Spyros Polemis, Chairman International Chamber of Shipping (ICS).
“We have a duty to protect the maritime environment, to use resources more efficiently, and to go beyond the requirements of international environmental legislation,” said Micky Arison, setting out the expectations for gmec, while at the same time a large number of the world’s merchant fleet, comprising nearly 50,000 ships, already have a high standard of energy efficiency and low carbon emissions of 0.1 kilograms per TEU and kilometre (by comparison, road trucks produce 2.3 kg carbon per TEU and kilometre). gmec lived up to these expectations.
The global environmental maritime congress (gmec), a high-calibre summit meeting of the maritime industry organised by Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC), came to a successful conclusion yesterday (Wednesday).
The programme of the...
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