Tag: ship- recycling

PHP Family, a recycling yard located in Chittagong has become the first Bangladeshi yard to receive a Statement of Compliance under the Hong Kong Convention from international Classification Society RINA. Currently, there are over 45 recycling yards in Alang, India that have won such a green credit from international class societies, and another 15 yards working towards it.

There were a total of 227 ships broken in the third quarter of 2017, and 124 of these ships ended up on beaches in South Asia 'for dirty and dangerous breaking', NGO Shipbreaking Platform informed. One worker lost his life at a shipbreaking yard in Alang and another one was reported seriously injured in Chittagong.

The Bulgaria-flagged general cargo ship 'Seven Star' was detained in Salerno, Italy, as she was found carrying a cargo of hazardous iron waste, which is to be offloaded at the port and arrested. 

During the summer, the two last G3 vessels operated by the Italian Grimaldi Group’s subsidiary ACL, were sold for demolition. NGO Shipbreaking Platform has recently sent a letter to the German authorities asking them to hold ACL accountable for having breached European waste laws.

Lomar Shipping announced that its newbuild container vessel Kea Trader, which ran aground on a reef off New Caledonia on July 12, will have to be recycled, as the recent damage assessments have shown that repairing is not feasible.

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd informed that it has now completed the sale of three of its older container ships to shipyards in China and Turkey, which are specially equipped and certified for safe and environmentally sound recycling. 

The Government of India has signed a loan deal worth $76 million with Japan International Cooperation Agency, for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards, the world's largest scrapping facility.

Danish ship management company Maersk issued its sustainability report for 2016, highlighting key achievements in the area of environmental responsibility, such as reducing emissions from shipping and complying with responsible ship recycling.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform reminded that it has been one year since the beaching of the FPSO North Sea Producer in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and the legality of the export is yet to be further clarified.

As ship recycling standards have increased across the sub continent, tanker owners need to adapt to the stricter requirements for cleaning vessels for hot works prior recycling, GMS has suggested. The number of fatal accidents on vessels, that were not cleaned thoroughly, should serve as a serious wake up call to tanker owners.