CESS 2016
Press Release

CESS, Committee for Expertise of Shipbuilding Specifics (CESS) held its
annual meeting in Busan, Korea on 13 July, 2016 where the member
associations, Japan, Europe, China, Korea and U.S.A. gathered anddiscussed key issues surrounding the global shipbuilding industry. The
meeting was hosted by Korea. The delegates reviewed CESS’s activities
from the past year and the activities expected to come, and exchanged
views to seek further cooperation in voicing common opinions onshipbuilding issues.
The participants agreed that CESS continued to appeal as a platform toshare views

and develop common positions on important issues,

especially regulatory, and tocommunicate these to counterpart

organisations in the maritime industry, and will do so harmoniously withanother

shipbuilders’association

ActiveShipbuilding

Experts’Federation, or ASEF established November last year, by complementing
their activities for common objectives and goals.
The delegates discussed important ongoing issues, in particular, thereduction of GHG emissions from ships, where the EEDI scheme has
passed the halfway point this year of Phase 1 and is focusing on Phase
2 onwards, and with the Paris Agreement now in place, the expectations
are mounting on energy saving technologies that the shipbuilders areexpected to play and important role in achieving the goals set by thecoming phases of EEDI scheme. The shipbuilding industry continues tocontribute towards practical and effective solutions for new building
ships and existing ships.
Furthermore various ongoing issues such as the protection of
intellectual property rights while fulfilling the design transparency

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requirements for safety under the IMO Goal Based Standards, industryguidelines on the standards were developed to be duly noted by IMO,
and this was the first time achievement of the cross industry effort ofship owners, classification societies and shipbuilders, where all CESS
members

participated in thehardwork

towards this notableachievement.
An assessment on Port State Control activities as part of the Paris andTokyo MOU’s during 2015 was made. It was noted that both regions
were steadily carrying out their port state control activities as inprevious years which suggests that the quality of the ships aregenerally improving. The report showed that the shipbuilding quality
related deficiencies were kept at low levels, and that ship detentions
have been improved in relation to previous years. The ship types whichcharacterises aged ships, such as reefer fleet and general cargo fleet
have shown above average detention rates. An improvement of these
detentions may be possible as the older ships will be replaced in thefuture by new ships or, other ship types.
The rule and regulations governing the maritime industry is changing as
the needs are on the increase, and the shipbuilders need to take furtheractive role in contributing their expertise into those rules andregulations. CESS member associations noted that closer ties among its
members are becoming more and more important and effective for thefuture prosperity of the industry. In the year ahead, further activities
and the effective promotion of joint solutions for the aforementioned
issues is essential to continue the work of CESS.
CESS will report on its activities at the forthcoming meeting of theJECKU (Shipbuilding) Top Executive Meeting scheduled to take place inGyeongju, Korea, on 20 October, 2016.

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1st August 2016
Dave Iwamoto
CESS Chairman[c/o The Shipbuilders’ Association of Japan,
15-12, Toranomon 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan]
minato@sajn.or.jp