Tag: ship- recycling

​UN Conference on Trade and Development issued maritime statistics on the world shipping fleet by flag and by country of ownership, for 2017, as well as the 2016 tonnage for ship building and scrapping. Top 5 ship owners are Greece, Japan, China, Germany and Singapore and together they have a market share of 49.5% of dwt.

The dismantling and recycling of the Concordia cruise ship, one of the most important green ship recycling projects ever carried out in Europe, has been completed by San Giorgio del Porto, in partnership with Saipem, less than three years after the ship arrived in Genoa.

A total of 210 ships were broken in the second quarter of 2017, and 158 of these ships ended up on South Asian beaches for dirty and dangerous breaking, according to NGO Shipbreaking Platform. The Platform documented five accidents at the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong between April and June, which led to the death of four workers and the injury of two.

ClassNK has issued a Statement of Compliance to a ship recycling facility in Izmir, Turkey, verifying that the facilities are in line with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009. This marks the first time a SoC has been issued to ship recycling facilities in Turkey.

GMS, a cash buyer of ships for recycling, said that the attempt to reverse the recently imposed 15% value-added tax on ships being sent to Indian ship-recycling markets will likely be successful. The finance ministry informed that VAT will now be postponed for at least another two years, which should see prices remain at par with those seen in the first quarter of the year.

The Brazilian CONTTMAF trade union federation and its member SINDMAR have recently criticized the shipbreaking practices of Brazilian Transpetro, according to the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. In the last five years, more than twenty vessels owned by the company have been dismantled on India and Pakistan, endangering both workers and the environment.

During Nor-Shipping 2017, ABN AMRO, ING and NIBC presented the Responsible Ship Recycling Standards (RSRS) for ship financing and called upon other financial institutions to unite in endorsing these. The banks hope to raise awareness of the importance of improving the end-of-life stage of ships.

The Royal Australian Navy announced that its "Ex-HMAS Sydney" frigate has left Sydney Harbour, on May 18th, in order to be towed to Western Australia for recycling. The was built at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington, USA, and commissioned there on 29 January 1983.

Two workers lost their lives at the Chittagong shipbreaking yards in the last two weeks, bringing the total death toll this year to six workers, NGO Shipbreaking Platform reported. The NGO, as well as other organizations, inform on the danger associated with shipbreaking practices and call for restriction measures.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform issued its annual report, informing that last year, at least 52 workers lost their lives on the shipbreaking beaches in South Asia. The worst explosion in the history of shipbreaking struck an oil tanker beached in Gadani, Pakistan, killing 28 workers and injuring more than 60.