The need to modernize the coastal fleet in the new environmental data, on the occasion of the increased operating costs of ships due to increases in international marine fuel prices, pointed out the president of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEP), Vassilis Korikis Association of Passenger Shipping Companies “Go to Green Shipping” held at the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
“The hourglass shows the last grains of sand” for the country’s coastal shipping, which is facing another “perfect storm”, the generative cause of which is energy “, Mr. Korkidis stressed, adding that” it is time to make decisions without spins, without referrals and without further delay “.
He pointed out that any delay would threaten not only the shipping companies, but mainly the territorial cohesion of the mainland with the island country, the economic activity itself in the island complexes and, secondarily, a large part of the tourist activities on which, among other things, large part of the Greek economy.
“Everyone’s priority is to keep the coastal fleet in a ‘combat state,'” he said.
He also said that the energy crisis has brought to the fore, perhaps in a dramatic way, the need to modernize the shipping fleet, but also to adapt it to the new environmental data and requirements, which, as he said, while they should have “taken second place. “In relation to the acute problem of the cost of marine fuels, however, they are pressing here.
He added that of the global emissions measurement in industry accounted for 24%, agricultural production 18%, housing 17.5% and transport 16.2% of which, 12%, road transport and only 1.7%, in shipping.
Finally, he pointed out that the issue of fleet modernization also goes through the big issue of revitalizing the shipbuilding sector in Greece.
The time for many, well, but at the same time old, coastal ships, unfortunately, is ending, a fact that deprives the margins and the luxury of continuing the theoretical discussions on “how, who, why and when” will be replaced, since the The issue is not just the replacement of an old ship, but what will be “built” to be environmentally compatible with the IMO’s standards for ship air pollution and the decarbonisation of shipping and, at the same time, “Economical in terms of consumption of even” modern “fuels, such as LNG, for example,” said Mr. Korkidis.
According to EBEP, the required funds for the renewal and upgrade of the fleet in the next decade range between 2.6 and 3 billion euros, while, in addition, more than 100 million euros are needed to upgrade the fleet of newer ships.
Source: Capital
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