Tag: shipbreaking

DW Documentary has published a video which looks into shipbreaking and, in particular, the conditions in Chittagong, Bangladesh, which is home to one of the world’s largest ship breaking yards. 

According to Gibson Shipbrokers, 51% of the total tanker fleet of 25,000 dwt and above are aged 15 years and older.

Business Insider India looked at at how shipbreaking yards are dismantling decommissioned cruise ships sent due to the pandemic.

According to GMS' latest report, as highlighted in last week’s edition of the GMS Weekly, the two VLCCs that have fallen afoul of USDN rules and become victims of OFAC sanctions remain stranded outside Bangladeshi waters with no prospects of a final resting place.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform in a statement, urged the EU to take action to end the dumping of toxic ships and to support capacity building.

An oil tanker sanctioned by the US is being taken apart in an Indian scrapyard, marking the first ship scrapped by the shadow fleet.

The Polish government confirmed that a Russian tanker, which has been docked in the Port of Gdynia for nearly eight years, will be removed.

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform revealed that 80% of the global tonnage scrapped last year was broken under substandard conditions.

Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT) has announced plans to establish ship recycling and dismantling facilities using advanced green technologies.

According to GMS’ latest weekly ship-recycling report, the week saw a series of significant sanctions from President Biden targeting China's COSCO and Russia, alongside growing economic volatility impacting global ship recycling markets.