Report: EU ship recycling yards more than enough to handle demand

Although the industry wants low-cost shipbreaking yards outside the EU to be added to the EU list of approved facilities in order to meet demand from vessels bound by the bloc’s ship recycling law, a new report by NGOs Shipbreaking Platform and Transport & Environment (T&E) shows that the current EU list can accommodate the numbers and sizes of EU-flagged ships that are scrapped every year.

The 20 EU yards currently recognised as meeting ship-recycling standards have had the capacity to handle...

https://safety4sea.com/report-eu-ship-recycling-yards-more-than-enough-to-handle-demand/

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