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EU will look at ways to curtail reflagging of scrap-ready ships

The Commission will investigate how it can intervene against shipping companies that reflag ships and send them to be scrapped outside Europe.
Among other things, the EU Commission will once again pull a study from 2016 out of the archives, even though its results were never implemented in reality. | Photo: Francois Lenoir/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Among other things, the EU Commission will once again pull a study from 2016 out of the archives, even though its results were never implemented in reality. | Photo: Francois Lenoir/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by LIV ALMER

The EU wants to do away with a well-known loophole where European ships are reflagged to be scrapped at shipyards outside Europe.

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