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The pressure will be on the owners once the convention is in force. The

IMO says they have to be compliant after the renewal survey, so they can only sail away when the system is installed.

Gert-Jan Oude Egberink, Damen Shipyards “ the implied safety of U.S. –approved the world’s ? eet. al shippers operate across three levels, as Guard approval – which is more strin- systems to buy. “Ship owners are reti- Toward that end, the ICS, and its breth- well as in a range of temperatures. “This gent than the G8 protocls – then we ” cent to ? t a system that won’t be able to ren, including Intertanko, Bimco and the means you could have a system not veri- are sure it does work under most of the operate in the U.S.; they are all hang- American Chamber of Shipping (ACS), ? ed to operate in all of the water condi- conditions.” And it will, according to ing on, waiting for U.S type-approved succeeded last fall in winning agreement tions in terms of salinity that you’d ex- CMDR Allain. systems. Ships are generally designed from the IMO to strengthen its G8 test- pect a worldwide ship to encounter over “I would say the U.S. Coast Guard re- for worldwide trade; we’re not asking ing protocols. This is important because its lifetime,” exclaims Spremulli. quirements are consistent with the G8 for anything special, just systems that although ships in global trade operate in And that’s the big worry. protocols, but more stringent and with will operate in our normal sphere,” said a wide range of conditions, the G8 pro- There’s a reason for the U.S. Coast less room for interpretation. Whenever

Jonathan Spremulli, technical director tocol doesn’t require testing in all those Guard to set up their own rules for ap- you have guidelines, there is room for of International Chamber of Shipping situations. For ex., the G8 only requires proval, said Maerk’s Wredstrom. “I’m interpretation. When you have multiple (ICS), which claims to represent 80% of testing to two levels of salinity, yet glob- sure if a supplier full? lls U.S.Coast countries reviewing multiple systems www.marinelink.com 39

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