Maersk: There is a limit to our responsibility for scrapping
The Maersk Group policy states that the company’s fleet must be scrapped responsibly at approved yards. Yet the company is being criticized for not doing enough. “There is a limit to how far our responsibility goes,” maintains the company.
BY TOMAS KRISTIANSEN
How many demands can be placed on a shipping company in order to secure that its ships are scrapped responsibly? The NGO Shipbreaking Platform believes that shipowners ought to make sure that a ship following its last voyage is scrapped under decent working conditions, even though the ship at that time has been resold. For instance, this could be secured through a certificate which obliges the buyer of the ship not to beach the ships in Pakistan or India.
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