TANKER RECYCLING STILL A DANGEROUS AND DIRTY BUSINESS, DESPITE INTERNATIONAL ACTION
January 1st, 2009
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; and KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference took place this month in Hong Kong (May 11-15) and adopted a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) convention on globally applicable ship recycling regulations for international shipping, including oil and gas tankers. This set of rules has been a long time coming, and follow years of criticism about the practice of unregulated ship breaking, often on the beaches of south Asia, because of the deaths and injuries to workers and the significant pollution involved, given the ...
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