German shipowners are frequent scrapyard users
German shipowners scrapped 98 of 100 retiring vessels on the beaches of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Yard workers and the environment are paying the price for the German shipping industry's financial woes, says Shipbreaking Platform. Find the list of scrapped vessels here.
German shipowners are heavy users of the highly criticized shipbreaking yards in Southeast Asia where vessels are sailed directly onto the beach and dismantled in the tide water zone often with detrimental effects on workers and the environment.
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