The European Commission adopted the 11th edition of the European List of ship recycling facilities, which […]
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In the last weeks, seven workers tragically died while dismantling vessels in Bangladesh and Turkey. Five workers were killed and three severely injured in seven separate accidents on the infamous shipbreaking beach of Chattogram, Bangladesh. The fatalities were caused by explosions, falls from height, falling steel plates and exposure to toxic fumes.
On 12 August, an iron piece fell injuring Alim, a cutter man who was dismantling the FSO DARING LIBREVILLE (IMO 9002623) at Mother Steel...
The ship-breaking industry of India is up for a major boom as shippers are procuring 230-240 ships. Indian shipbreakers will be acquiring ships with a combined tonnage of 1.9 million light displacement tonnage (LDT). This is a sharp rise from last fiscal year’s acquisition of 1.77 million LDT tonnage from 214 ships
This will increase India’s ship-breaking revenue by 10%. All this has happened courtesy of improved availability of condemned ships aided by higher steel scrap rates, revealed Crisil...
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Two UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated, reports BBC.
End of Hazardous WasteShips at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK.
But months after being sold at auction to buyers outside the UK they were then sold on as scrap for double the price.
As they were set to be used for further trading when they left UK waters, their arrival in India does not...
A recently published news report in Reuters reveals that a Bangladeshi woman whose husband died while dismantling an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard in 2018 can file a negligence claim against a British company involved in the vessel’s sale, London’s High Court ruled this week.
What happened?Khalil Mollah, 32, fell to his death while working on a tanker called the EKTA in the port city of Chattogram in southeastern Bangladesh, where scores of end-of-life ships are sent to be scrapped each...
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Namely, the documentary focuses on five rigs that were sold in 2017 by oil and gas company Diamond Offshore to cash buyer GMS, one of the leading scrap dealers...
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As we are approaching the end of another exciting year for shipping, without a doubt the focus of everyone ahead of 2020 will be on IMO sulphur cap. This issue, along with decarbonization in general, has emerged as a main priority for the sector, with companies trying to find ways to cut their emissions. In this article, we take a look back at 2019, and we identify the key environmental moments that left their mark.
IMO 2020 sulphur cap
From 1 January 2020, the limit for sulphur in fuel oil used...
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The High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared the import, beaching and breaking of the infamous FPSO North Sea Producer illegal.
The judgment was issued in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by NGO Shipbreaking Platform member organisation Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA).
The Court further noted with dismay the incessant violations of national and international laws by the shipbreaking industry, and passed several directions upon the government to...
Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore urged the shipping industry to adopt higher standards in ship recycling. For this reason, BVS provides insight into the challenges of meeting ship recycling requirements, as well ten tips to achieve compliance.
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform issued its Q3 2019 results noting that there were a total of 122 ships broken, out of which 73 were sold to the beaches of South Asia for dirty and dangerous breaking.
The NGO’s report for Q2 revealed that 193 ships...