The NGO Shipbreaking Platform has published its latest South Asia Quarterly Update which provides an overview of the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Providing an overview of vessels broken on the beaches of South Asia, accidents, recent on-the-ground, legislative and political developments including activities in South Asia, NGO Shipbreaking Platform aims to inform the public about the negative impacts of substandard shipbreaking practices as well as positive steps aimed at the realisation of environmental justice and the protection of workers’ rights.
This edition features details about a dramatic surge of fatal accidents in the Bangladesh shipbreaking yards in May-June and the case study of young worker Mominul who was crippled while breaking European ships; a follow up of the Kabir Steel case with businesses in the yard’s value chain as well as the UN Special Rapporteur’s critique of German shipbreaking practices in substandard beaching yards and NGO’s reaction to ECSA’s so-called fact-finding report on their visit to the Alang shipbreaking yards.
Explore more by reading the South Asia Quarterly Update below:
Source & Image credit: NGO Shipbreaking Platform
