SOUTH ASIAN SHIP SCRAPPING OPPONENTS WARN EU LAW MAYBE PAPER TIGER
August 1st, 2013
The European Union’s (EU) new ship recycling regulation that controls how European-flagged ships are to be scrapped in Asian countries has been ridiculed by experts in Bangladesh and India, the two major shipbreaking centres in Asia. They told Steel First that even if the poor existing facilities in these countries are upgraded to meet the minimum environmental standards as prescribed in the new regulation, verifying them would be tough. “There is no ship recycling plan, the process of dismantling is not documented well and there is no access for the media ...
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