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NGO: Responsibility for scrapping should follow each ship

The Bruxelles-based NGO Shipbreaking Platform, which exposes shipping companies that scrap their ships on Asian beaches, believes that the shipowners must secure proper scrapping, even when their ship has been resold.
Photo: IMO
Photo: IMO
BY TOMAS KRISTIANSEN

Shipbreaking Platform believes that shipowners must make sure that their ships are properly scrapped, even when they have been resold, to prevent them from ending up on Asian beaches, the phenomenon known as beaching.

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