HELMEPA welcomes its new members, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd and vessels under their management
Today, Tuesday 20 February 2018, at HELMEPA’s offices, Mr. Michael. Dalacouras, Deputy Treasurer of the Board of Directors, met with Captain Nicholas Pagonis, Associate Vice President-Fleet Captain, Global Marine Operations of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, who handed him the applications for the registration, as HELMEPA Members, of the Company and 12 cruise ships under their management.
Captain Pagonis expressed his appreciation of HELMEPA’s voluntary mission and its achievements during the past 35 years since the association’s founding.
Mr. Dalacouras expressed the satisfaction of all in HELMEPA for the decision of Royal Caribbean Cruises, one of the world’s largest cruise ship management company, to register its vessels with HELMEPA.
“We believe that the cooperation between HELMEPA and Royal Caribbean Cruises will be mutually constructive. The voluntary training of the human factor that HELMEPA offers, will complement Royal Caribbean’s spirit of pollution prevention, while HELMEPA will spread its messages to thousands of seafarers ononboard cruise ships.”
HELMEPA
It is the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association; the pioneering voluntary commitment of Greek seafarers and ship owners to safeguard the seas from ship-generated pollution, undertaken in Piraeus, on June 4, 1982. Under the motto “To Save the Seas”, they have consistently supported their initiative to date.
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