Tag: ship- recycling

Greece-based shipping company Diana Containerships Inc. announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement to sell the 2006-built vessel “New Jersey” for demolition, on an “as is where is” basis.

The Dutch Public Prosecutor is bringing criminal charges against Groningen-based Seatrade, for having sold vessels to scrap yards in countries “where current ship dismantling methods endanger the lives and health of workers and pollute the environment”. This is the first time Public Prosecutors are bringing criminal charges against a shipowner.

In a bid to further boost Bangladeshi ship recycling industry, the parliament passed the Bangladesh Ship Recycling Bill 2018, keeping a provision of tougher punishment for violations of the law. Under the bill, owners are obliged to issue life insurance for all employees and be fully aligned with the relevant global laws and conventions,

The second phase of an IMO-implemented project to enhance safe and environmentally sound ship recycling in Bangladesh is set to begin in January, following a US$1.1 million funding agreement with Norway. The second phase will continue to support the country to comply with international requirements and guide it towards accession to Hong Kong Convention. 

Although there has been a decrease in the number of accidents in shipbreaking yards of Chittagong up to September, now the accident rate for the three first quarters of 2017 has surged with 8 injuries and 6 deaths recorded in the last two months alone, according to NGO Shipbreaking Platform.

After the container vessel Kea Trader split in half last month, fuel was spilled off the ship, with oil washing New Caledonia's eastern coasts and making the local authorities issue a marine pollution alert.

The Indian government has drafted legislation to ratify the IMO's Hong Kong Convention on safe ship-recycling, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari was quoted as saying. The Convention will enter into force 24 months after it is ratified by 15 States. At the moment, only six states have acceded.

Lomar Shipping's container vessel Kea Trader, which had ran aground on a reef off New Caledonia on July 12, developed a crack, resulting in the vessel being split in half. The crack along the vessel's hull was caused due to this weekend's inclement weather on the Durand Reef.

Shipbreaking plot no. 54 in Gadani, Pakistan, was sealed off, after a massive fire broke out onboard the ship ACES, the same oil tanker that blew up on 1 November last year, causing death of 31 workers and injury of another 58 workers, NGO Shipbreaking Platform informed.

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform expressed dismay over the continued failure of the Gujarat Maritime Board to grant civil society access to see the working and environmental conditions at the shipbreaking yards in Alang, India.