Press Release Thursday 11 March 2019 London.UK. The NGO Shipbreaking platform and Supporting Entity of Human Rights at Sea publishes its South Asia Quarterly Update #18. Update Report There were a total of 181 ships broken in the first quarter of 2019. Of these, 142 ships were sold to the beaches of South Asia...
Press Release July 2018 London.UK. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform has just published its South Asia Quarterly update for 2018. There were a total of 220 ships broken in the second quarter of 2018. Of these, 169 ships were sold to the beaches of South Asia for dirty and dangerous breaking. Between April and June, 6...
Press Release Friday 8th June 2018 London.UK. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform published yesterday its Annual Report for 2017. Each year the NGO Shipbreaking Platform collects data and publishes an annual list of ships dismantled worldwide. In 2017, 835 vessels were dismantled. 543 of these ships were sold for dirty and dangerous breaking on the beach-es...
Press Release 7 March 2018 Hamburg, 7 March 2018 –The NGO Shipbreaking Platform has just issued a press release announcing its decision to withdraw from the TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum that starts today in Hamburg following legal threats from the ship-breaking industry. Read below the press release of the NGO: On Monday, the...
PRESS RELEASE 20 January 2018 Brussels, 20 January 2018. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform publishes today its list of ships dismantled worldwide in 2017 in tidal beaches of South East Asia revealing the shipping industry’s irresponsible shipbreaking practices and a series of human rights and labour abuses, including loss of life, at shipbreaking yards....
Brussels – The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association says no to the beaching of end-of-life vessels – the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of 19 environmental and human rights organisations, welcomes this decision and calls on other ship owners and their associations to mirror the Norwegian position. In an op-ed published yesterday in Dagens Næringsliv,...
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of environmental, human rights and labour rights organisations working to promote safe and clean ship recycling worldwide, presents its Annual Report 2014. You are invited to find out more in our report including: · a summary of the Platform’s findings about global shipbreaking trends in 2014, statistics...