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/

Implementation timeline for SEEMP Part II

Liberia Maritime Authority published a Marine Operations Note, reminding all shipowners and operators that from 2019, each ship of 5,000 gross tonnage and above should collect fuel consumption data for 2019 and each subsequent calendar year or portion thereof.

Operators should describe in the ships Ship Energy Efficiency Management (SEEMP) Plan Part II the methodology that will be used for collecting and reporting the vessel’s fuel data. This must be verified as compliant on or before 31...

https://safety4sea.com/implementation-timeline-for-seemp-part-ii/