Tag: Hong Kong Convention

Ships, drilling units and other offshore assets almost inevitably contain quantities of hazardous substances. When these assets reach the end of their operational lives, under international conventions and local laws they are very likely to be regarded as hazardous waste creating a risk of damage to the environment and human life.

IMO’s work to promote safe and environmentally sound ship recycling made further progress this week (6-8 November) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where a roundtable meeting of donors discussed next steps in IMO’s SENSREC project.

GMS announced in July Dr. Anand Hiremath’s successful completion of his Doctorate thesis on the "Development of integrated risk assessment framework for best practices in ship recycling" with the Indian Institute of Technology of Mumbai, India. In this article, Dr. Hiremath presents his findings, and his views of the ship recycling industry.

IMO's efforts to promote safe and environmentally sound ship recycling have received a boost with Panama becoming the 5th State to accede to the Hong Kong Convention.

The Danish Minister for Environment and Food has taken the first steps towards rules on scrapping ships that ensure that people and the environment are better protected globally when ships are broken up and recycled.

Belgium became the latest country to ratify the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, bringing the treaty within sight of meeting entry into force criteria. Belgium also deposited its instrument of accession to the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention, bringing the number of contracting States to four.

ClassNK has released the latest updates on ship recycling including information on ship recycling facilities that ClassNK has issued Statements of Compliance (SoC) to so far in line with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (HKC).

ICS has issued a guide including transitional measures for ship recycling to help shipowners ensure to the greatest extent possible that their end of life ships will be recycled at facilities that are compliant with the standards enshrined in the IMO Hong Kong Convention, in advance of the global regime entering into legal force.

Shipping companies are being strongly encouraged to use new ‘Transitional Measures for Shipowners Selling Ships for Recycling’ launched by a wide coalition of international shipping industry organisations.

ClassNK has issued Statements of Compliance to two more ship recycling facilities in Gujarat, India (Shree Ram and Leela ) verifying that they are in line with the Hong Kong International Convention.