“Shipbreaking” #57, the International Shipbreaking Show
“Shipbreaking” # 57 (pdf – 14 Mo)
Bulletin of information and analysis on ship demolition
from July 1 to September 30, 2019
Move carefully along the dark side of ship scrapping.
“Shipbreaking” #56, the International Shipbreaking Show
Shipbreaking # 56 (pdf – 10,3 Mo)
from April 1 to June 30, 2019
A 25 km-long convoy to be scrapped.168 ships. 85 % were beached in Asia.
Brittany. Rostellec Cove is about to get rid of 2 black spots. Cf. p. 4.
“Shipbreaking” #55: between getting worse and getting better
“Shipbreaking” #55
Bulletin of information and analysis on end-of-life ships
from January 1 to March 31, 2019 (pdf – 9.5 Mo)
– 158 ships leaving for demolition
“Shipbreaking” #54, special issue
Bulletin of information and analysis on end-of-life ships (pdf – 7.7 Mo)
October-November-December 2018 Review
+ Overall assessment for 2018
October-November-December 2018 :
– 90% of the ships were scrapped in Asia and 38% belonged to European shipowners.
– The number of deflaggings for the last trip is increasing. It represents 44% of the ships to be scrapped. Palau is at the top of the hearse flags. The archipelago is the only one to deal with companies based in the British Virgin Islands.
– China is withdrawing from the market. Only 2 to 3 demolition yards remain open. Before suspending access in early 2019, China hosted to be demolished the Steve Irwin from the NGO Sea Shepherd, Netherlands flag, and the Swan, Curacao flag, a heavy lift carrier.
“Shipbreaking” #53, the International Shipbreaking Show
July 1st to September 30, 2018
pdf – 13.1 Mo
The old liner must not be scrapped in the old-fashioned way
Built in 1965 by Uljanik Shipyards in Pula, Croatia, the Portuguese-flagged cruise ship Porto, is laid-up in Lisbon for 4 years. According to the European regulation, from January 1, 2019 onward, she will have to be demolished in one of the 21 EU-approved ship recycling yards. Unless she escapes beforehand towards a scrapyard outside the European Union and without notification of waste shipment under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.
Fuego !
The former corvette Alfonso Ceirquera was scuttled off the cliffs of Madeira Island.
In a deafening crash and a grey cloud, the old hull built in the 1970s sank into the Atlantic with its toxic paints, PCB-coated wiring, asbestos and old engines seeping oils and fuel.
