Martin Ackermann, CEO of BW LPG confirmed that the company’s LPG carrier ‘BW Helios’ arrived at a recycling facility in India on January 21, as the company aspires to be compliant with the Hong Kong Convention. The yard was fully inspected and certified by an International Class Society in Mar 2017, meeting the requirements of IMO Resolution 210/63, 2012 guidelines for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships, as per the Hong Kong Convention.
Specifically, the CEO addressed that the company is fully supportive of the Hong Kong Convention on the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships.
The company stated that it recycles its vessels in environmentally friendly yard that opposes no danger to its workers and has no children employed.
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Also, BW LPG provided a class certified inventory of hazardous materials and waste to the yard to ensure that safe handling, separation, transportation will be achieved with no harm to the work force and no contact with the sea or unprotected soil.
Additionally, a ship recycling plan has been prepared by the yard and approved by class DNV GL to make sure the strict compliance with international rules and legislation and BW LPG’s policy.
Mr Ackermann, is of the opinion that the ship recycling industry is transiting and many are the yards that are increasing and being certified with the Hong Kong convention.
Rather than to exclude facilities based on their geographical location, the only way to ensure health and safety of workers is to impose global legislation. This global legislation will stimulate all countries and individual shipbreaking yards to raise their standards and make substantial progress in the area of safe and environmental friendly ship recycling.
Concluding, the company supports that if companies abandon ship recycling breaking yards, the global community would have played an active role in promoting lowest standards, rather than helping those yards to improve and prosper.
