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Crackdown on recycling of EU-flagged ships in Asia

Europe’s biggest shipowner body, the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), is supporting a controversial proposed amendment to the EU’s Waste Shipment Regulation that would make it possible to recycle EU-flagged ships at non-OECD shipbreaking facilities in South Asia. This is presently prohibited under the Basel Convention on transboundary shipments of hazardous waste, which has been […]

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Bangladesh shipbreakers win right to sue UK owners

British shipping companies that sell old vessels to be scrapped cheaply in dangerous, low-paid conditions in Bangladesh, India or Pakistan may now be sued in London for workers’ deaths or injuries, according to The Guardian. The court of appeal of England and Wales held that a shipping company in London selling a vessel in south […]