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.
Arctic : Ponant, the French cruise company, has made a white duck
While Ponant published inner views from its future icebreaker, Commandant Charcot, a fiasco upset the French flag in its conquest and pollution of the Arctic Ocean.
Arctic : Ponant, the French cruise company, has made a white duck
While Ponant published inner views from its future icebreaker, Commandant Charcot, a fiasco upset the French flag in its conquest and pollution of the Arctic Ocean.
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.
“Shipbreaking” #52, the International Shipbreaking Show
Bulletin of information and analysis on end-of-life ships
April 1st to June 30, 2018
83 pages, 235 photos, 95 sources (pdf – 13,1 Mo)
“On the Trail” n°21, the defaunation bulletin
Quarterly information and analysis report on animal poaching and smuggling
792 events from the 1th April to the 30 of June 2018
124 pages, 4,7 Mo
Whales and marine mammals, pages 14 to 16
