A brand new report by NGO Shipbreaking Platform reveals that greater than 60% of 768 ships offered for scrap final 12 months had been damaged on the seashores of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the place ship house owners have to enhance shipbreaking practices.

The shipbreaking yards in South Asian don’t present basic labor rights, ignore worldwide waste commerce legislation, and fail to respect worldwide environmental safety requirements, in response to the report.

The knowledge reveals that 768 giant vessels had been offered to the scrap yards final 12 months, with 469 had been damaged on the seashores of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Last 12 months, Greek house owners offered essentially the most end-of-life vessels to soiled and harmful shipbreaking websites in South Asia, in response to the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. Meanwhile, Bangladesh grew to become the world’s primary vacation spot for scrap ships for the primary time in a few years.

“Despite a lot of international attention on the problems of shipbreaking on the beaches of South Asia, the statistics for 2015 show that the vast majority of ship owners have not changed their practice for the better. On the contrary, most have opted for one of the worst shipbreaking destination in the world – Bangladesh, where children are still illegally exploited to break ships manually on tidal mudflats”, NGO Shipbreaking Platform Director Patrizia Heidegger mentioned in an announcement.

The NGO applauds the European Union’s plan to publish an inventory of authorised ship recycling amenities worldwide by the top of 2016.

“This will satisfy the call from those that demand better practices, including investors such as ABN-Amro and cargo owners such as H&M, Stora Enso and Phillips – none of whom wish to be associated with polluting and harmful end-of-life management of old ships,” in response to the group.

The NGO desires delivery firms and their buyers to solely permit their vessels to go to yards listed on the EU listing. It additionally recommends governments to take steps to make sure nationwide use of the EU listing.