PAKISTAN SHIP-SCRAPPING SECTOR STARTS TALKS ON IMPLEMENTING IMO GOOD PRACTICE CONVENTION
December 1st, 2012
Pakistan’s shipbreaking industry has started talks with the Pakistani government over how it can comply with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, whose rules come into force in 2015. The chairman of the Pakistan Ship Breakers Association has told Steel First that he has met with officials to discuss measures for implementing the treaty: “We are ready to take steps to protect and promote the ship breaking industry,” declared Deewan Rizwan Farooqui. However, he ...
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