Tag: ship- recycling

Mr. Henning Gramann, CEO, GSR- Services has responded to GREEN4SEA questions providing his insight for the ship recycling sector. He said that the preparation of IHM is a significant challenge for 2017 and stressed the need for supporting the shipping industry in the integration of IHM and ship recycling planning in daily routine, otherwise implementation of the new legal requirements will be too 'burdensome'.

The European Commission has adopted the first version of the "European List of ship recycling facilities", taking an important first step to help ensure that ships are recycled in facilities that are safe for workers and environmentally sound.

Ship recyclers in India and China will recycle eight vessels owned by Maersk Line. The ship recyclers have agreed in full to the A.P. Moller - Maersk Responsible Ship Recycling Standard. The deal gives Maersk Line greater fleet flexibility and vessels will be transferred to the recycling yards within coming months.

President and CEO of GMS, Dr. Anil Sharma, says significant and ongoing improvements at Alang recycling yards are a key highlight for 2016 and the EU has the opportunity to maintain this momentum for the betterment of our industry

On 15 November 2016, the Norwegian RoRo shiping company Höegh Autoliners sold the Pure Car and Truck Carrier MV Morning Mercator, built in 1988, for recycling.

44 end­ of life ships were sold for breaking in the third quarter of 2016, according to the data collected and analysed by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. Eighty five per cent of end of ­life ships ended up on South Asian beaches, making this quarter one of the worst in the last years in terms of the small percentage of ships recycled in non ­beaching yards.

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.

India’s Ministry of Shipping will sponsor a new safety training program for 20,000 workers involved in the ship recycling activities at Alanag- Sosiya recycling yard. The news comes a day after at least 16 workers were killed and 58 wounded in an explosion at the Gadani shipbreaking yard near Karachi, Pakistan.

Beaching is considered to be one of the harshest and most dangerous jobs in the world; it is the shipbreaking on beaches in India, Bangladesh or Pakistan, where regulatory mechanisms are weak, ignoring basic safety rules, where labour force is cheap and respect for the environment barely non-existent. EU has a moral responsibility to protect workers’ rights also outside Europe.

Leela Ship Recycling has become the first Ship Recycling Facility in South Asia to receive the Social Accountability certification, as per SA8000 standards, one of the world’s first auditable certification standards that encourages organisations to develop, maintain and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace.