On Monday, the EU member states’ experts on ship recycling met in Brussels to discuss the latest developments, six months ahead of the application of the 2013… Read More

In 2023, 325 large tankers, bulkers, floating platforms, cargo- and passenger ships ended up for dirty and dangerous breaking on beaches in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

The Basel Ban Amendment, adopted by the Parties to the Basel Convention in 1995, became international law on December 5.

763 ocean-going commercial ships and floating offshore units were sold to the scrap yards in 2021. Of these, 583 ended up on the beaches of South Asia, amounting to near the totality of the gross tonnage dismantled globally.

On 11 October a tanker caught fire at the Gadani shipbreaking beach that holds a deplorable record of life threatening accidents. Fortunately, no casualties were recorded. Only… Read More

744 large ocean-going commercial vessels were sold to the scrap yards in 2018. Of these vessels, 518 were broken down on tidal mudflats in South Asia.