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Maersk To Stick With Alang! Tightens Ship Recycling Procedures


According to a latest report published on Maersk website,the shipping giant is introducing contractual steps to ensure that their sales contracts include a strong financial incentive for ship recycling to be carried out responsibly.

Maersk Collaborating for Responsible Ship Recycling

Claus V. Hemmingsen: “We have actively participated in, and worked directly with, the yards in Alang, India, to improve conditions there and to influence the industry as a whole.”

As a minimum, yards that Maersk...

http://mfame.guru/maersk-to-stick-with-alang-tightens-ship-recycling-procedures/

Winners of the “Public Eye Investigation Award” Shed Light on Shipbreaking

Belgian journalist Gie Goris, Editor in Chief of MO* Magazine, and Nicola Mulinaris, Communication, and Policy Officer of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, received Public Eye’s first ever “Investigation Award” for their research on the shipbreaking business, says a press release published on Ship Breaking Platform.

How ships are handled?

Gie Goris looked for signs of Swiss shipping companies in the Indian town of Alang, where ships go to die. There, he saw many middle-aged wrecks and met angry...

http://mfame.guru/winners-of-the-public-eye-investigation-award-shed-light-on-shipbreaking/

Another Dutch ship owner faces huge fine for having beached a vessel

Ingvild Jenssen

Brussels, 20 January 2019 – Dutch ship owner Holland Maas Scheepvaart Beheer II BV has been fined 780.000 EUR and paid a settlement of 2.2 million EUR – totaling to a price tag of almost 3 million EUR – for having beached a ship for scrapping in India.

In 2013, Holland Maas Scheepvaart Beheer II BV, a subsidiary of WEC Lines BV, sold the HMS Laurence to a cash buyer, a company specialised in the trade of end-of-life vessels to beaching yards. The vessel ended up in Alang, India,...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/20/another-dutch-ship-owner-faces-huge-fine-for-having-beached-a-vessel/

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