Tag: ship- recycling

NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about an incident where a worker lost his life while scrapping BW Offshore’s Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit Cidade de Sao Vicente. 

As European owners try to find EU compliant ship recycling facilities, International Shipbreaking Ltd (ISL) in the US has completed processing its vessel from the region.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform published its South Asia Quarterly Update regarding the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

The Asian Shipowners Association (ASA) conducted its 25th Interim Meeting of the ASA Ship Recycling Committee, committing to ensure full compliance with all applicable competition laws throughout the entire programme.

An Appeal Court in the Norwegian city of Bergen, has confirmed the prison sentence for Norwegian ship owner, for aiding and abetting the attempt to export the ship Tide Carrier, aka Eide Carrier and Harrier, to Pakistan for scrapping.

The EU Ship Recycling Regulation needs “major surgery”, but the current proposals offer little more than a sticking plaster, says Gudrun Janssens Head of Environmental & Technical Affairs, Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association.

According to new data released by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, 763 ocean-going commercial ships and floating offshore units were sold to the scrap yards in 2021.

The Icelandic district prosecutor has been allowed to raid the offices of shipping company Eimskip, in order to search into possible legal irregularities regarding the sale of two scrapped ships to India.

The demolition yards at Alang, India received a record number of cruise and passenger ships in the past 12 months. 

A total of 14 cruise ships were on the shores of Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat in the past 12 months to be dismantled.