The Navarra SL
Reciclauto address, company leading Recyship, European Life Project ENV 07/000
787, confirmed the start of decontamination Vandoma tug integral in the town of
Aveiro, about 70 miles south of Porto scarce in Portugal. These
works are carried out in the shipyards owned by the firm Navalria also Recyship
partner, European Life Project ENV 07/000 787, and in accordance with the
criteria of sustainability, and health monitoring for the environment that
inspired this initiative supported by European authorities.
The
Vandoma is a ship of 150 tons, built in 1944 and has so far tug work in various
ports of the neighboring country. Now,
planned and controlled demolition "is for us a final stage for Life 07
ENV/00078 project in which we have worked hard for more than four years,"
said Miguel Angel Garcia Molina, director general of Navarra SL Reciclauto
At
this point it should be remembered that the European project Recyship Life 07
ENV / 000 787 is equipped with 3.5 million euros for Life, the main financial
instrument of the European Union in the field of Environment. It
is also a program that leads Reciclauto company, based in Sarriguren, Navarra,
and whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a new industry specializing in
the decontamination and dismantling of ships out of use, BFUS, Spain and throughout Europe.
Its
promoters point out that the extension of this type of environmentally
responsible industry could bring a number of important benefits for the whole society.
Of
these, the key would be the creation of new jobs in towns and coastal areas
that carry serious problems of deindustrialization, unemployment and social
exclusion from the industrial restructuring that suffered in the last decades
of the last century.