An employee at a shipbreaking backyard in Bangladesh has actually passed away in mishap while functioning to take apart German containership Viktoria Wulff, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform has actually claimed.

The 35-year employee was eliminated December 4 after he was struck in the head by hefty item of iron at the Arefin shipbreaking backyard in Chittagong, Bangladesh, according to the NGO.

The Viktoria Wulff (ex-spouse MSC Firenze), a 4,546 teu panamax, made headings in September when it ended up being the youngest containership ever before cost scrap at simply ten years old. The vessel was marketed after its German ship proprietor Wulff declared bankruptcy in August.

The Shipbreaking Platform claimed the mishap is not the initial deadly instance that can be connected to insolvencies of German shipowners. Last year an employee in Alang, India was eliminated when taking apart the King Justus, which was marketed after the bankruptcy of König & & Cie.

“The story of the ‘Viktoria Wulff’ is characteristic for the failed business practices of German KG ship owners as well as ship funds. Nearly 600 ships have been sold due to insolvencies and financial problems since 2008, many of which ended up on the South Asian beaches,” states Patrizia Heidegger, Executive Director of the NGOShipbreaking Platform “The bill for the ship owners’ and investors’ greed for profit is paid by workers and the environment in destinations like Bangladesh, where ships end up without any consideration of the human and environmental costs. It is a scandal that German liquidators, who are appointed by the courts, sell end-of-life ships to substandard breaking yards risking peoples’ lives through deals that are in clear breach of international and even domestic Bangladeshi law just to sort out the books for German ship owners”.

So much this year 83 end-of-life vessels have actually been marketed to beaching backyards in South Asia in 2016, mainly by German and also Greek ship proprietors, the Shipbreaking Platform states.