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INFORMATION RESOURCES ON

RECYCLING OF SHIPS

[INFORMATION SHEET No. 38] (Last update: 13 December 2007)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page IMO PUBLICATIONS 3 IMO MATERIAL ON THE WEBSITE 3 IMO DOCUMENTS 4

Resolutions 4 Circulars 5

Assembly 5 FSI 5

Joint ILO/IMO/BC Working Group on Ship Scrapping 6 LEG 7 London Convention 7 MEPC 7 Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling 15 MSC 15 TC 15 SECRETARIAT OF THE BASEL CONVENTION 16 INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION 16 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 18 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 21 VIDEOS 23 INTERNET RESOURCES 23 MULTIMEDIA 23 ARTICLES FROM THE PRESS Legal Periodicals 23 Technical Periodicals 24

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IMO PUBLICATIONS Abbreviations : A : Arabic; C : Chinese; E : English; F : French; R : Russian; S: Spanish IMO guidelines for Ship Recycling. Ship recycling. 2007 edition Language(s): E, S. (IMO-I685E) The present publication contains the consolidated text of the IMO Guidelines on ship recycling adopted by Assembly resolution A.962(23), as amended by Assembly resolution A.980(24), while also referring to the existence and relevance of the guidelines on the same subject by ILO and by the Basel Convention

IMO MATERIAL ON THE WEBSITE Ship recycling http://www.imo.org/Environment/mainframe.asp?topic_id=818 Assembly Resolution A.962(23) – IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling http://www.imo.org/Environment/mainframe.asp?topic_id=874 Joint ILO/IMO/BC Working Group on Ship Recycling http://www.imo.org/Environment/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1044 IMO to develop new instrument on recycling of ships http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1109 IMO News Magazine New impetus for co-ordinated approach to ship recycling through new legally binding instrument. In: IMO News Magazine, Issue 1/2006, p. 28 http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=6292/IMONews%201%202006.pdf The IMO’s work on ship recycling. Paper by Sokratis Dikakopoulos . In: IMO News Magazine, Issue 2/2005, pp 18-20 http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=5076/IMONews_205forweb.pdf Co-ordinated approach to ship scrapping. In: IMO News Magazine, Issue 1/2005, p. 10 http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=4854/IMONews_March05_1.pdf “Green passport” for ships debated as IMO tackles ship recycling. IMO News Magazine, Issue 4/2002, pp 14-15 http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=2886/Issue4_IMO_02.pdf Papers and articles by IMO Staff Developments and issues on recycling of ships. Article by Dr. Nikos Mikelis, presented at the East Asian Seas Congress, Haikou City, Hainan Province, PR China, 12-16 December 2006. http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=7420/Developments.pdf The IMO’s work on ship recycling – London 4-5 May 2005. Article by Mr. Sokratis Dimakopoulos http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=4892/Ship%20Recycling.doc

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Press Briefings Ship recycling, air pollution and ballast water management on agenda at IMO environment meeting. Marine Environment Committee to meet from 9 to 13 October. Briefing 34/2006, 5 October 2006. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1320&doc_id=7242 Proposed ship recycling instrument progressed at IMO environment meeting. Packed agenda for latest MEPC meeting. Briefing 11/2006, 30 March 2006 http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1320&doc_id=6250 Proposed ship recycling instrument to be considered at IMO environment meeting. Environment meeting to consider ship recycling, ballast water management and air pollution from ships. Briefing 07/2006, 16 March 2006. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1320&doc_id=6198 New impetus for co-ordinated approach to ship recycling through new legally binding instrument. Joint ILO/IMO/Basel ship recycling group holds second meeting. Briefing 52/2005. 20 December 2005. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1018&doc_id=6039 Agencies adopt co-ordinated approach to ship scrapping as Joint Working Group makes progress. Organizations compare work programmes and agree combined way forward. Briefing 13/2005, 18 February 2005. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1018&doc_id=4712 "Green Passport" for ships debated as IMO environmental meeting tackles ship recycling. Marine environment issues take centre stage at IMO meeting, 7-11 October 2002. Briefing 20/2002, 16 October 2002 http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=583&doc_id=2486 Air pollution, ship recycling and ballast water management on MEPC agenda. Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meets for its 56th session 9-13 July. Briefing 22/2007, 6 July 2007. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1472&doc_id=8207 Marine Environment Protection Committee progresses key issues. Green light given to air pollution study. Briefing 26/2007, 20 July 2007. http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1472&doc_id=8273 Electronic Publications IMO guidelines for Ship Recycling. Ship recycling. 2007 edition (E-book_

IMO DOCUMENTS Abbreviations: Community of European Shipyards’ Association (CESA), International Labour Office (ILO), Basel Action Network (BAN), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO), the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (INTERCARGO), International Parcel Tanker Association (IPTA), the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

RESOLUTIONS A.962(23) IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling. Adopted 5 December 2003 http://www.imo.org/Environment/mainframe.asp?topic_id=874 MEPC.113(50) Ship recycling for the smooth implementation of the amendments to Annex I of

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Marpol 73/78. Adopted 4 December 2003 A.980(24) Amendments to the IMO Guidelines on Ship recycling (Resolution A.962(230). Adopted on 1 December 2005 A.981(24) New legally binding instruments on ship recycling. Adopted on 1 December 2005.

CIRCULARS

Circular Letters Circular Letter No. 2579 First Session of the Joint ILO/IMO/BC Working Group on Ship Scrapping 08/09/2004 Circular Letter No. 2615 Intersessional meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling, 13 to 15 July 13/01/2005 2005 Circular letter No. 2769 Intersessional meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling 19/01/2007 MEPC MEPC/Circ.419 Guidelines for the development of the ship recycling plan 12/11/2004 http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=4489/419.pdf MEPC/Circ.466 Implementation of the IMO guidelines on ship recycling (Assembly Resolution 25/07/2005 A.962(230)) MEPC/Circ.467 Promotion of the implementation of the IMO guidelines on ship recycling 26/07/2005 (Assembly resolution A.962(230))

ASSEMBLY A 23/19/1 Consideration of the reports and recommendations of the Marine Environment Protection Committee. Draft guidelines on ship recycling approved by MEPC 49. Submitted by Greenpeace International A 23/19/2 Idem. Draft guidelines on ship recycling approved by MEPC 49. Submitted by ICS, on behalf of the industry working group on ship recycling (BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, ICS, ITOPF, ICFTU, OCIMF, IPTA)

SUB-COMMITTEE ON FLAG STATE IMPLEMENTATION 11th Session (7 -11 April 2003) FSI 11/15 Ship recycling-related matters. Draft IMO Guidelines on recycling of ships.

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JOINT ILO/IMO/BC WORKING GROUP ON SHIP SCRAPPING

Terms of reference, Parties, Documents etc. http://www.basel.int/ships/iloimobcwg.html 1st Session (15 – 17 February 2005) Joint ILO-IMO-Basel Convention Working Group on Ship Scrapping First meeting: London, 15-17 February 2005. Press release: http://www.ilo.org/pubcgi/links_ext.pl?http://www.imo.org/home.asp and Report: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/bcvg_05_rep.pdf

ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/1/1 Annotations and provisional timetable ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/1/2 Rules of procedures ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/2 Consideration on the work programmes of the pertinent bodies of ILO, IMO and

the Conference parties to the Basel Convention on the issue of ship scrapping: Work programme of the Marine Environment Committee on the issue of ship recycling

IMO/IMO/BC WG 1/2/1 Idem. Work programme of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the issue of ship scrapping. Note by the Basel Convention Secretariat ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/2/1/Corr.1 Idem. Work programme of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the issue of ship scrapping IMO/IMO/BC WG 1/2/2 Consideration on the work programmes of the pertinent bodies of ILO, IMO and

the Conference parties to the Basel Convention on the issue of ship recycling: Abandonment of ships

ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/3 Examination of the relevant ILO, IMO and BC guidelines on ship scrapping. Guidelines for the development of the ship recycling plan ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/3/1 Idem. Proposal for a methodology to be applied for the initial examination of the relevant ILO, IMO and BC guidelines on ship scrapping. Note by the ILO Secretariat ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/4 Promotion of the implementation of the guidelines on ship scrapping. Mechanisms for the promotion of the implementation of the IMO guidelines on ship recycling ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/5 Joint technical co-operation activities. IMO technical co-operation activities on ship recycling ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/5/1 Idem. Proposal for the development of a global/regional programme on ship Scrapping ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/6 Work programme of the Joint Working Group. Decision adopted by the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Joint Working Group. Note by the Basel Convention Secretariat ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/6/1 Idem. Terms of reference for the Joint ILO/IMO/Basel Convention Working Group ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/7 MEPC’s views on the proposal under consideration at COP 7 regarding the flag State’s responsibility for the purposes of the application of the Basel Convention ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/7/1 Shipbreaking activities in Bangladesh. Submitted by Bangladesh

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ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/7/2 Shipping industry work programme. The way ahead – practical and pragmatic. Submitted by ISF, BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko and ICS ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/7/3 The IMO guidelines on ship recycling (annotated). Submitted by Greenpeace International and BAN ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/7/4 BAN comments and proposals for resolving Basel Convention shipbreaking issues. Submitted by the BAN ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/8 Report of the Working Group ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/INF.2 The relevant decisions of the 7th Session of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention on the issue of ship scrapping. Submitted by BAN ILO/IMO/BC WG 1/INF.3 Joint technical co-operation activities. The need to set up an international eco- dismantling fund. Submitted by Greenpeace International

LEGAL COMMITTEE 91st Session (24 – 28 April 2006) LEG 91/11 Abandonment of ships.

LONDON CONVENTION 25th Session (6 – 10 October 2003) LC 25/INF.7 Relations with other Organizations in the field of marine environment protection. Outcome of MEPC 49 with regard to ship recycling. 27th Session (24 – 28 October 2005) LC 27/14 Recent developments in IMO concerning regulation of recycling of ships and “abandonment of ships”

MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE 44th Session (6 – 8 March 2000) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=358 MEPC 44/16 Recycling of ships. Harmful Aquatic Organisms in Ballast Water. Potential environmental

effects of ships ballast water discharges in considering the involvement of IMO in regulating the scrapping of ships. Submitted by Friends of the Earth International

MEPC 44/16/1 Idem. Additional information related to ship scrapping. Submitted by the Netherlands MEPC 44/16/2 Idem. Proposal for an IMO work plan. Submitted by Norway MEPC 44/16/3 Idem. Submitted by Brazil MEPC 44/16/4 Idem. Comments on the proposal for an E\40 Work Plan. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO,

INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO, OCIMF and ICFTU

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MEPC 44/20 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 44th Session (Section 16 – Recycling of Ships)

MEPC 44/INF. 14 Idem. Report on the first Ship Recycling Summit. Submitted by the Netherlands MEPC 44/INF.22 Idem. Note by the Secretariat 46th Session (23 – 27 April 2001) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=774 MEPC 46/7 Recycling of ships. Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by the Coordinator of

the Correspondence Group MEPC 46/7/1 Idem. Submitted by India MEPC 46/23 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 46th Session (Section 7 –

recycling of ships) MEPC 46/INF.5 Idem. Report on the seventeenth meeting of the Technical Working Group of the Basel Convention (TWG 17) MEPC 46/INF.21 Idem. Environmental contamination in Alang-Sosiya Shipbreaking Yards. Submitted by Greenpeace International 47th Session (4 – 8 March 2002) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=1753 MEPC 47/3 Recycling of ships. Co operation with ILO and the Basel Convention MEPC 47/3/1 Idem. Proposals for consideration by the Committee on the development of internationally

applicable guidelines on recycling of ships. Submitted by India. MEPC 47/3/2 Idem. Submitted by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) on behalf of the Industry

Working Party on Ship Recycling. MEPC 47/3/3 Idem. Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by the Coordinator of the

Correspondence Group MEPC 47/3/4 Idem. Proposal for consideration of the Committee for developing a new Annex under

MARPOL 73/78 for Ship Recycling. Submitted by India MEPC 47/3/5 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by Greenpeace

International MEPC 47/20 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 47th Session (Section 3 –

recycling of ships) MEPC 47/INF.3 Recycling of ships. Information on the Environmental Guidelines for the ship recycling

industry in India. Submitted by India MEPC 47/INF.4 Idem. Decommissioning and recycling of ships and the capacity of the recycling industry.

Submitted by BIMCO

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48th Session (7 – 11 October 2002) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=2543 MEPC 48/3 Idem. Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by the Coordinator of the

Correspondence Group MEPC 48/3/1 Idem. General comments on document MEPC 48/3. Submitted by India MEPC 48/3/2 Idem. Comments on document MEPC 48/3. Submitted by India MEPC 48/3/3 Idem. Comments on the report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by Greenpeace

International MEPC 48/21 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 48th Session (Section 3 –

Recycling of ships) MEPC 48/INF.2 Recycling of Ships. Report on ship scrapping. Submitted by the OECD MEPC 48/INF.11 Idem. Decision concerning the export of the "Sandrien" for ship recycling. Submitted by Greenpeace International 49th Session (14 – 18 July 2003) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=2798 MEPC 49/3 Recycling of Ships. International co-operation. MEPC 49/3/1 Idem. Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by the Coordinator of the

Correspondence Group MEPC 49/3/2 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group: selected cases of

decommissioning of vessels indicating the need for mandatory requirements. Submitted by Greenpeace International

MEPC 49/3/3 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group to MEPC 49. Submitted by

India MEPC 49/3/4 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group: compliance with the Basel

Convention. Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 49/3/5 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by Japan MEPC 49/22 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its forty ninth session.

(Section 3 – Recycling of ships, Annex 3 – Draft assembly resolution – IMO guidelines on ship recycling, Annex 4 – List of future work items on ship recycling

MEPC 49/22/Add. I Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its forty ninth session (Annex

3: Draft Assembly Resolution – IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling; Annex 4: List of future work items on ship recycling)

MEPC 49/INF.4 Recycling of Ships MEPC 49/INF.8 Idem. Draft ILO guidelines on safety and health in shipbreaking MEPC 49/INF.34 Interpretations and amendments of MARPOL 73/78 and related instruments. Report of the

Expert Group on Impact Study of the proposed amendments to MARPOL Annex I.

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50th Session (1 – 4 December 2003) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=3155 MEPC 50/2/5 Consideration and adoption of amendments to MA PROL 73/78. Draft MECPC resolution

concerning ship recycling for the smooth implementation of the amendments to Annex I of MARPOL 73/78. Submitted by Japan

51st Session (29 March – 2 April 2004) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=3156 MEPC 51/3 Recycling of ships. Inter agency co operation MEPC 51/3/1 Idem. Background information MEPC 51/3/2 Idem. Proposed technical considerations for preparing a Ship Recycling Plan. Submitted

by Canada MEPC 51/3/3 Idem. Inter agency co operation MEPC 51/3/4 Idem. Comments on future work items on ship recycling: Mechanisms to promote the

implementation of the IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling. Submitted by Japan MEPC 51/3/5 Idem. Submitted by France MEPC 51/3/6 Idem. Proposal for further development of the list of future work items on ship recycling as

approved by MEPC 49. Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 51/22 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its fifty first session.(Annex

3: Terms of reference for the Joint ILO/IN40/BASEL Convention Working Group; Annex 4: Terms of reference for the Correspondence Group on Ship Recycling)

MEPC 5 I/INF. 4 Recycling of ships. Safety and health in shipbreaking : Guidelines for Asian countries and

Turkey. Note by ILO MEPC 5 I/INF. I I Idem. Analysis of inconsistencies between the IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling and the

Basel Convention. Submitted by Greenpeace International 52nd Session (11 – 15 October 2004) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=3663 MEPC 52/3 Recycling of ships. Report of the Correspondence Group on Ship Recycling. Submitted by

the Coordinator of the Correspondence Group. MEPC 52/3/1 Idem. Proposal on a "phase approach to ship dismantling". Submitted by the Netherlands MEPC 52/3/2 Idem. Proposals for mandatory guidelines. Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 52/3/3 Idem. Proposals for review and further development of the IN40 guidelines. Submitted by

Greenpeace International MEPC 52/3/4 Idem. Reporting system for ships destined for recycling. Submitted by India. MEPC 52/3/5 Idem. Comments on the IMO Guidelines on ship recycling. Submitted by ICS on behalf of

the Industry Party on Ship Recycling MEPC 52/3/6 Idem. Ship recycling fund. Submitted by Bangladesh

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MEPC 52/3/7 Idem. Outcome of the Basel Convention open ended Working Group meeting on the issue of ship recycling. Submitted by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention

MEPC 52/3/8 Idem. Research on a system to facilitate the preparation of the Green Passport MEPC 52/3/9 Idem. Reporting system for ships destined for recycling. Submitted by BIMCO, ICS,

Intercargo, Intertanko and IPTA MEPC 52/24 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 52 d Session (Section 3

Recycling of ships) MEPC 52/INF.12 Idem. The application of the Basel Convention. Submitted by ICS on behalf of the Industry

Working Party on Ship Recycling 53rd Session (18 – 22 July 2005) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=4469 MEPC 53/3 Recycling of ships. Report on the first session of the Joint ILO/IN40/BC Working Group

on ship scrapping (15 17 February 2005) MEPC 53/3/1 Idem. Report of the Correspondence Group on ship recycling. Submitted by the

Coordinator of the Correspondence Group MEPC 53/3/2 Idem. Analysis on the mandatory requirements on ship recycling MEPC 53/3/3 Idem. The need to develop a definitive and consolidated list of single hull oil tankers

subject to phase out regulations. Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 53/3/4 Idem. The need to set up and international eco dismantling fund. Submitted by Greenpeace

International MEPC 53/3/5 Idem. The way ahead practical and pragmatic. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO,

INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO, IPTA and WNTI MEPC 53/3/6 Idem. Mandatory requirements for the IMO guidelines. Submitted by India MEPC 53/3/7 Idem. Proposal for an enforceable legally binding system for the recycling of ships.

Submitted by Denmark MEPC 53/3/8 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group on Ship Recycling.

Submitted by Denmark MEPC 53/3/9 Idem. Comment on the analysis on the mandatory requirements on ship recycling.

Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 53/24 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 53rd session (Section 3 –

Recycling of ships, Annex 7 – Draft assembly resolution – New legally binding instrument on ship recycling; Annex 8 – Draft assembly resolution – Amendments to the IMO guidelines on ship recycling (Resolution A.962(23)))

MEPC 5 3/INF. 12 Idem. Report on the current status of ship recycling at Alang in India. Submitted by India MEPC 5 3/INF. 17 Idem. The development of a Green Passport for an existing ship. Submitted by Canada MEPC 53/INF.19 Idem. Control System for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary

Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. Submitted by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention

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54th Session (20 – 24 March 2006) Summary reports: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=6204 MEPC 54/3 Recycling of ships. Proposal for a new legally-binding instruments on recycling of ships. Submitted by Norway MEPC 54/3/1 Idem. Proposal for a standard format of the Inventory of Potentially Hazardous Materials and criteria for the selection of the materials to be listed in the Inventory. Submitted by Japan MEPC 54/3/2 Idem. Report of the second session of the Joint ILO/IMO/BC Working Group on Ship Scrapping (12 – 14 December 2005) MEPC 54/3/3 Idem. Considerations on the development of a mandatory instrument on ship recycling. Submitted by IACS MEPC 54/3/4 Idem. Comments on the proposal for a new legally-binding instrument on recycling of ships (MEPC 54/3/4). Submitted by Brazil MEPC 54/3/5 Idem. The need to develop a new legally-binding instruments that will build and improve upon existing environmental justice legislation : Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 54/3/5/Rev.1 Idem. The need to develop a new legally-binding instruments that will build and improve upon existing environmental justice legislation : Submitted by Greenpeace International MEPC 54/3/6 Idem. Proposal for a structure of the guidelines for the development of the inventory of hazardous materials. Submitted by Germany MEPC 54/3/7 Idem. Proposal for the guidelines for survey and inspection to verify the conformity of the inventory of potentially hazardous materials with the requirements of the new legally- binding instruments on recycling of ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 54/3/8 Idem. Comments on the proposal for a new legally-binding instrument on recycling of ships. Submitted by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention MEPC 54/3/9 Idem. Comments on the proposal for a new legally-binding instruments on recycling of ships (MEPC 54/3). Submitted by India MEPC 54/3/10 Idem. Proposal for the development of Section C “Requirements for ship recycling facilities” of a new legally-binding instruments on recycling of ships. Submitted by ILO MEPC 54/3/11 Idem. Proposal for a new legally binding instruments on recycling of ships. Industry comments. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO, IPTA, WNTI 55th Session (9 – 13 October 2006) Summary report: http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=109&doc_id=6219 MEPC 55/3 Recycling of ships. Review of certain wording in the draft instrument on ship recycling as

compared with other conventions MEPC 55/3/1 Idem. Draft guidelines for the development of the inventory f hazardous materials. Submitted by Japan and Germany MEPC 55/3/2 Idem. Report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by Norway MEPC 55/3/3 Idem. Possible ISO standards. Submitted by ISO

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MEPC 55/3/4 Idem. Proposal on the drafting of a code for safe and environmentally sound management of ship-scrapping facilities. Submitted by France MEPC 55/3/5 Idem. Further considerations for guidelines for the development of the inventory of hazardous materials. Submitted by Germany MEPC 55/3/6 Idem. Basic stance for surveys of recycling of ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 55/3/7 Idem. Urgent considerations for correcting deficiencies in the draft Convention on the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by Greenpeace MEPC 55/3/8 Idem. Proposal for prohibited and restricted materials to be listed in Appendix 1 of the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 55/3/9 Idem. Comments on regulation B-I-4 of the draft Convention regarding the Inventory of Hazardous Materials for existing ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 55/3/10 Idem. Comments on the draft Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials. Note by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention MEPC 55/3/11 Idem. Comments on the Report of the Correspondence Group on Ship Recycling. Note by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention MEPC 55/3/12 Idem. Development of the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by India MEPC 55/3/13 Idem. Recommended procedure for dealing with hazardous materials of construction on ships. Submitted by IACS MEPC 55/3/14 Idem. Proposal to clarify the scope of the Convention with respect to land-based facilities. Submitted by France MEPC 55/3/15 Idem. Comments on the draft Convention and the Inventory of hazardous Materials. Submitted by CESA MEPC 55/3/16 Idem. Comments on the report of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO, IPTA MEPC 55/3/17 Idem. Submission of ILO related to the review of the draft Convention on ship recycling. Submitted by ILO MEPC 55/23 Report of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on its 55th Session. (Section 3 – Recycling of ships; Annex 7 – Statement by Greenpeace International in the ship recycling issue) MEPC 55/3/INF.12 Idem. Normal recycling procedures. Submitted by ICS 56th Session (9 – 13 July 2007) MEPC 56/3 Recycling of ships. Report of the 2nd Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on ship Recycling MEPC 56/3/1 Idem. Proposal on draft Appendices and revised text of the draft Convention. Submitted by Japan

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MEPC 56/3/2 Idem. Draft Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials. Submitted by Japan and Germany MEPC 56/3/3 Idem. Draft guidelines for survey and certification of ships under the International Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 56/3/4 Idem. Draft guidelines for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling – Part 1. Submitted by Japan MEPC 56/3/5 Idem. Draft Guidelines for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling – Part 2. Submitted by Japan MEPC 56/3/6 Idem. Guidelines for the development of the ship recycling facility management plan. Submitted by the United States MEPC 56/3/7 Idem. Outline of the Scheme on survey and certification of ships under the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by Japan MEPC 56/3/8 Idem. Comments on the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by the Comité Maritime International (CMI) MEPC 56/3/9 Idem. Ready for recycling criteria. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO and IPTA MEPC 56/3/10 Idem. Comments to the report of ISRWG 2 – Proposal to include three hazardous materials in the draft Convention. Submitted by Norway MEPC 56/3/11 Idem. Draft guidelines for survey and certification of ships under the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by IACS MEPC 56/3/12 Idem. Further development of the draft Convention. Submitted by Denmark MEPC 56/3/13 Idem. Comments on the report of the Second Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on Ship Recycling. Submitted by Belgium and the Netherlands MEPC 56/3/14 Idem. Further development of the draft Convention – non—Party recycling facilities MEPC 56/3/15 Idem. Explanatory notes: Development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials. Submitted by Japan MEPC 56/3/17 Idem. Note on the report of the Second Intersessional Working Group on Ship Recycling. Submitted by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention MEPC 56/3/16 Idem Comments on the report of the Second Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on ship recycling. Submitted by Belgium and the Netherlands MEPC 56/3/18 Idem. Proposal for recycling of ships at safe and environmentally sound ship recycling facilities in States that are nor Parties to the Convention. Submitted by the United States MEPC 56/3/19 Idem. Proposal regarding the procedures for authorizing ship recycling facilities. Submitted by the United States MEPC 56/3/20 Idem. Outline of draft guidelines for development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials. Submitted by the United States

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MEPC 56/3/20/Corr.1 Idem. Corrigendum MEPC 56/3/21 Idem. Proposal for a mechanism to facilitate implementation of the Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships. Submitted by the United States MEPC 56/3/22 Idem. Examination of the practical application of the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships – a timeline for recycling a ship according to the draft Convention’s current regulations. Submitted by the United Kingdom MEPC 56/3/23 Idem. Comments on the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Submitted by ILO MEPC 56/3/24 Idem. Possible third meeting of the Joint Working Group on Ship Scrapping. Submitted by the International Labour Office MEPC 56/3/25 Idem. Draft guidelines for the development of the inventory for hazardous materials. Submitted by ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO and IPTA

INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF THE WORKING GEOUP ON SHIP RECYCLING

2nd Session (7 May 2007) MEPC-ISRWG 2/2 Further development of the draft convention and of the draft guidelines. Report of the correspondence group. Submitted by Norway as co-ordinator of the correspondence group MEPC-ISRWG 2/2/1 Idem. Suggestions for the development of the Convention. Submitted by Denmark MEPC-ISRWG 2/3 Idem. Draft guidelines for ship recycling facilities for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships. Submitted by Denmark MEPC-ISRWG 2/INF.1 Idem. Comments on the draft Convention by Members of the Correspondence Group. Submitted by Norway as co-ordinator of the correspondence group

MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE 75th Session (15 - 24 May 2002)

MSC 75/12/4 Ship design and equipment. Recycling of ships - Outcome of MEPC 47

TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION COMMITTEE 51st Session (12-13 June 2002)

TC 51/INF.2 Work of other bodies and organizations. International ship recycling fund 55th Session (14 – 16 June 2005) TC 55/2/Add.3 Work of other bodies and organizations. International ship recycling fund TC 55/2/3 Idem. International Ship recycling Fund. Submitted by Bangladesh

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SECRETARIAT OF THE BASEL CONVENTION The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal http://www.basel.int UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) – Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (4th Session, Geneva, 4 – 8 July 2005). http://www.basel.int/meetings/frsetmain.php UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) - (Technical Working Group of the Base] Convention, 16th Session 3-5 April 2000) - Dismantling of ships. Geneva, UNEP, 2000 (UNEP/CHW/TWG/16/3 & UNEP/CHW/TWG/I 6/3/Add. 1). http://www.basel.int/meetings/twg/twg16/predocs/twg16_3.pdf and http://www.basel.int/meetings/twg/twg16/predocs/twg16_3a1.pdf Relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties and the Open-ended Working Group http://www.basel.int/ships/relevdesc.html Text of the Basel Guidelines: Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of the full and partial dismantling of ships (Published in 2003) http://www.basel.int/pub/techguid/dismships/dismsh2003.pdf Relevant case law from national courts http://www.basel.int/ships/relevcaselaw.html The seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, for the first time, adopted a decision on abandonment of ships. http://www.basel.int/ships/relev-decisions-cop-vii.pdf#VII_27 Basel Convention Inter-sessional Working Group http://www.basel.int/ships/bcwg.html

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO) See also: Joint ILO-IMO-Basel Convention Working Group on Ship Scrapping above Safety and health in shipbreaking: Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey, 2004 (ISBN 92-2-115289-8) http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protction/safework/cops/english/download/e000020.pdf Documents of the ILO Governing Body, 289th Session, Geneva, 11-26 March 2004 Covering note to the GB http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-5.pdf also available in French: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-5.pdf and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-5.pdf Text of the Guidelines as adopted by the Meeting http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-1.pdf also available in French: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-1.pdf and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-1.pdf Report of the meeting in Bangkok http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-2.pdf also available in French: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-2.pdf and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/meshs-2.pdf Meeting between ILO – IMO – SBC http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-8-1.pdf also available in French: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-8-1.pdf

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and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/stm-8-1.pdf Report of the Committee on Sectoral and Technical Meetings http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/gb-14.pdf also available in French: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/gb-14.pdf and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb289/pdf/gb-14.pdf Draft guidelines on safety and health is shipbreaking. Interregional Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Safety and health in Shipbreaking for selected Asian Countries and Turkey. Bangkok, 20-27 May 2003. Geneva, ILO, 2003 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/draft_guide.pdf A PowerPoint presentation related to the hiterregional Tripartite Meeting of experts PPT format: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/draft_guide.ppt PDF format: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/draft_guide_ppt.pdf UNDP grant for safe shipbreaking in Bangladesh http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/undp.pdf Basel Convention adopts Guidelines on the Full and Partial Dismantling of Ships, Geneva, 9-14 December, 2002 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/basel6.pdf A background paper http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/shpbreak.htm Ship Breaking Factsheet from OSHA http://www.ilo.org/pubcgi/links_ext.pl?http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_MaritimeFacts/shipbreaking-factsheet.pdf Ship Breaking Takes "Huge Toll" on Workers - in ILO Focus http://www.us.ilo.org/archive/ilofocus/2001/fall/0110focus_8.cfm On Transport Equipment Manufacture - ILO Governing Body Follow-up to Sectoral Meetings held in 2000-2001 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/gbstm.pdf Globalization's downside: From shipyard to graveyard : is there a decent way to break ships? Geneva, ILO, 2000 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/37/shipyard.htm Is there a decent way to break up ships? http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/papers/shpbreak/index.htm The Shipbreakers. VHS NSTC Film (23 mins) prepared for the ILO's Sectoral Activities Programme. Geneva, ILO, 2000. Language(s): E, F (ISBN 92-2-112328-6) http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/film/index.htm Workers' safety in the shipbreaking industry - an issues paper http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/papers/shpbreak/wp-167.pdf ILO Conventions and Recommendations on Occupational Safety and Health, as international instruments that are relevant to ship dismantling:

- Guarding Machinery Convention (No. 119) and Recommendation (No. 118), 1963 - Maximum Weight Convention (No. 127) and Recommendation (No. 128), 1967 - Occupational Cancer Convention (No. 13 9) and Recommendation (No. 147), 1974 - Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention (No. 148) and Recommendation

(No. 15 6), 1977 - Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 155) and Recommendation (No. 164), 1981 - Occupational Health Services Convention (No. 16 1) and Recommendation (No. 171), 1985 - Asbestos Convention (No. 162) and Recommendation (172), 1986

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- Chemicals Convention (No. 170) and Recommendation (177), 1990 Codes of practices on occupational safety and health relevant to ship dismantling:

- Ambient factors in the workplace, 2001 - Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems, 2001 - Recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases, 1995 - Safety in the use of chemicals at work, 1993 - Technical and ethical guidelines for workers' health surveillance, 1992 - Safety in the use of asbestos, 1984 - Occupational safety and health in the iron and steel industry, 1983 - Occupational exposure to airborne substances harmful to health, 1980 - Protection of workers against noise & vibration in the working environment, 1977 - Safety and health in ship building and ship repairing, 1974

References to important information sources on chemical safety:

- ILO InFocus Programme on Safety, Health and the Environment (SafeWork) http://www.ilo.org/safework

- ILO International Occupational Safety and Health Information Center (CIS) http://www.ilo.org/cis

- IPCS International Chemical Safety Cards, http://www.who.int/ipcs

- Inter-Organization Programme for Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC), http://www.who.int/iomc

- Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), http://www.who.int/ifcs

- Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG) http://www.unece.org/trans/danger

- Globally Harmonized System for the classification and labelling of chemicals(GHS), http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs.html and http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/ghs

- OECD: http://www.oecd.org/ehs

- UNEP: http://www.unep.org

- UNEP/ FAO: The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain

Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade http://www.pic.int

- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) http://www.chem.unep.ch/sc/

- London Convention 1972 (IMO), Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, http://www.londonconvention.org

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ABDI, R. – Ship breaking at Alang: Problems, initiatives and the way ahead. In: IIAS/Greenpeace Seminar on scrapping ships in Asia and the liability regime. Amsterdam, June 2003. ANDERSEN, A.B. - Technological and economic feasibility study of ship scrapping in Europe. Paper delivered at the Mare Forum 2nd Global Ship Recycling Summit, 25 June 2001.

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The green passport: Putting procedures into practice. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 19-26 BAILEY, P. – Safety and health in shipbreaking. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 63-72 - Progress towards a co-ordinated approach to ship scrapping : A report on the first session of the Joint Working Group. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. BERNATOWICZ, J. – Assessing the value of European yards joining the ship dismantling industry. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. BRYCE, R. – Recycling high speed ferries and ideas for the future. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 107-114 CHAMBERS, B. – Reflections of a US Navy ship disposal contractor. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. CHOWDHURY, F.R. – Recycling is a shore based industry. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference, Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp15-18 - HSE compliance at Alang – Utopia or the next milestone? In: Mare Forum, 2nd Global Recycling of Summit, Rotterdam, June 2001 DIMAKOPOULOS, S. – The IMO’s work in ship recycling. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 7-14 DRURY, S. – What are the key issues for ship owners, brokers and ship-yards when negotiating a ship recycling contract? In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. FINN, A. – The role of the shipbroker. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. GRAMMAN, H. – Ship recycling : Datamanagement for better ship care and recycling. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. GRAMMAN, H./ HAUGEN, E./ TOWNSEND, R. – Life-cycle management and the inventories of hazardous materials in relation to end of life management. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. HEDLUND-ÅSTRÖM, A. – Environmental friendly recycling of FRP-sandwich ship hulls. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 119-126 KOEFOED, J.H. – Recycling of ships : Ship scrapping and developments in IMO. Paper delivered at the Mare Forum 2nd Global Ship Recycling Summit, 25 June 2001. LLOYD’S LIST EVENTS (http://www.lloydslistevents.com/mtmarlin/marlin/system/render.jsp?siteid=30000000235&MarlinViewType=INDEX ) – Discussion Forum on the Green passport. GL discussion prior to Green Ship Technology Conference. Hamburg, 23 March 2006. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2006

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- Ship Recycling Conference 2005. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005 - Ship Recycling Conference 2007. London, 22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. MARE FORUM - Second Global Ship Recycling Summit 2001 - 25 June 2001. Conclusions http://www.mareforum.com/shiprecycling.htm MIKELIS, N.E. (Dr.) – A statistical overview of ship recycling. Paper to be presented at the International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection (Athens, September 2007). 2007 MORTENSEN, B. – Challenges in the interim period between adoption of a recycling Convention in IMO and the global implementation. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. NAGARSHETH, P.S. – Can the shipbreakers in India make the change towards ship recyclers? Paper delivered at the Mare Forum 2nd Global Ship Recycling Summit, 25 June 2001. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTER (NEETC) – Ship recycling 2001 – International Conference held in Pennsylvania, 9-12 September 2001. Indiana, NEET, 2001. http://www.neetc.iup.edu OFTEDAL, S. – An update on the new ship-recycling convention following the Inter sessional IMO meeting. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. PARKINSON, B. – Regulatory matters: International and national regulations and their enforcement, industry guidelines and voluntary codes of practice. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 1-6 - Shipping industry activities and industry code of practice. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. PEARCE, T. – recycling of nuclear fuel carriers. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 101-106 ROYAL INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS (RINA) – Recycling of ships, and other marine structures. International Conference. London, 4-5 May 2005. London, RINA, 2005 (ISBN 1-905040-12-1) http://www.rina.org.uk SHAHID, M. – Ship recycling in Pakistan : Economics and environments. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 39-48 Ship Recycling 2001 - a conference http://www.shiprec2001.neetc.org STAWPERT, J. – The shipping industry’s reaction : The challenges, benefits and opportunities of the implementation of the convention. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. STEPHENSON, P.M. – Recycling of marine structures and ships in the UK. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 83-94

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- Ship recycling in the UK. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. STRAND, T.C.– DEMOLISHCON - The standard contract for recycling of ships. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 27-38 TOWNSEND, R. – Reporting and certification systems : Implementing the green passport and beyond? In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. - Inventories of hazardous materials. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2007, London -22 – 23 May 2007. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2007. Van WIJNGAARDEN, M. – Safer ship dismantling facilities. In: Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) – International Conference – Recycling of ships and other marine structures (London: 4-5 May 2005). London, RINA, 2005, pp 73-82 - Safer ship dismantling in South Asia. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. VELDHOVEN, B.J.M. – The legal background. In: Lloyd’s List Events, Ship Recycling Conference 2005 ; From ship scrapping to ship recycling…. A willingness to change. Amsterdam, 11 – 12 April 2005. London, Lloyd’s List Events, 2005. WIJNOLST, N. (Dr.) – Towards a ship recycling industry charter. Paper delivered at the Mare Forum 2nd Global Ship Recycling Summit, 25 June 2001.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS ANDERSEN, A.B. – Worker safety in the ship-breaking industries. An issue paper. Geneva, ILO, 2001. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/papers/shpbreak/wp-167.pdf DANISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY – Shipbreaking on OECD. Working Report No. 17, 2003. http://www.mst.dk/homepage/default.asp?Sub=http://www.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2003/87-7972-588-0/html/kap01_eng.htm DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (DEFRA) – UK ship recycling strategy. Consultation paper. London, DEFRA, 2006. http://www.defra.gov.uk DET NORSKE VERITAS - "Decommissioning Guidelines the GUEDEC Approach". DNV Report No 2000 3156 and "Third Party Environmental Verification Ship Decommissioning (ENVER)" Report No 2000 3157 - Ship recycling : Industry concern , industry response : The way forward, challenges, DNV response. 2000. http://www.skibstekniskselskab.dk/download/F2005_DNVShipRecycling.pdf#search='ship%20recycling%202001' Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Branch, Pacific and Yukon Region: "Cleanup Standards for Ocean Disposal of Vessels" and "Cleanup Guidelines for Ocean Disposal of Vessels", February 1998. WEB sites: http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/AResources/cleanup_guidelines.html and http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/AResources/cleanup_standards.html ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (UK) – Dismantling defunct ships in the UK. 11 November 2004. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmenvfru/834/83402.htm

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) (USA) – A guide for ship scrappers : Tips for regulatory compliance. Washington, D.C., EPA, 2000. http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/resources/publications/civil/federal/shipscrapguide.pdf EUROPEAN COMMISSION – Directorate-General Energy and Transport – Oil tanker phase out and the ship scrapping industry : A study in the implications of the accelerated phase out scheme of single hull tankers proposed by the EU for the world ship scrapping and recycling industry. Final, June 2004. http://europa.eu.int/comm/transport/maritime/safety/doc/prestige/2004_06_scrapping_study_en.pdf#search='oil%20tanker%20phase%20out%20and%20the%20ship%20scrapping%20industry' GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL – Destination unknown : European singlehull oil tankers : No place to go. December 2004 http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak/destination.pdf GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL/ECORYS TRANSPORT – The ship recycling fund : Financing environmentally sound scrapping and recycling of sea-going ships. Final. Amsterdam, Greenpeace International, 2005. www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak/fund.pdf INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF SHIPPING (ICS) – Industry code of practice on ship recycling. (http://www.marisec ) .org/recycling/ IUP-NEETC Ship Recycling News http://www.neetc.iup.edu/srnews/about/ OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA) (USA) – OSHA fact Sheet on shipbreaking. U.S. Department of Labor - Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2001. http://www.ilo.org/pubcgi/links_ext.pl?http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_MaritimeFacts/shipbreaking-factsheet.pdf RAHMAN, A. / ULLAH, A.T. – Ship breaking : A background paper prepared for the ILO’s Sectoral Activities Programme. Dhaka, 1999. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/shpbreak.htm SAWYER, J.F. – Shipbreaking and the North-South debate: Economic development or environmental and labor catastrophe? In: Penn State International Law Review, Vol. 20/No. 3, pp 535-562, 2002. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance: "A Guide for Ship Scrappers – Tips for Regulatory Compliance", EPA 315-B-00-001, Summer 2000. http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/scrap.pdf United States Department of Transportation – Maritime Administration (MARAD) - "Environmental Assessment of the sale of national defence reserve fleet vessels for scrapping", Report No. MA-ENV-820-96003, July 1997 (including Appendix D: Sampling and analysis, Appendix E: Survey of ships and materials, and Appendix F: The markets, cost and benefits of ship breaking/ recycling in the United States). - Report to Congress on the progress of ship disposal - 2005 http://www.marad.dot.gov/Publications/Fy%2006/ReportToCongress11_05%20Final%20ver%202-21-2006.pdf Joint LTNEP/OCHA Environment Unit: "Guidelines for the Development of a National Environmental Contingency Plan" http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/programs/response/unep/pdf%20files/planguide.pdf UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) - (Technical Working Group of the Basel Convention, 16th Session 3-5 April 2000) – Dismantling of ships. Geneva, UNEP, 2000 (UNEP/CHW/TWG/16/3 & UNEP/CHW/TWG/16/3/Add.1). http://www.basel.int/meetings/twg/twg16/predocs/twg16_3.pdf & http://www.basel.int/meetings/twg/twg16/predocs/twg16_3a1.pdf

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VIDEOS INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO) – Shipbreaking : What can be done?. Multilingual DVD. Geneva, ILO, 2006. (ISBN 92-2-018790-6)

INTERNET RESOURCES Alang Today Alangtoday.com is a portal based on Alang / Sosiya Ship Recycling Yard Alangtoday.com is a portal based

http://www.alangtoday.com

BIMCO – Recycling Articles

http://www.bimco.org/Members%20Area/News/Issues/2007/01 /Recycling.aspx

Greenpeace – Shipbreaking Documents

http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak/documents.asp

International Labour Organization Safe work – Shipbreaking

http://www.ilo.org/safework/shipbreaking

MARISEC - Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling

http://www.marisec .org/recycling

Shipbreaking Net

http://www.shipbreaking.net/

United States Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD)

http://www.marad.dot.gov/

MULTIMEDIA The Shipbreakers. Film prepared for the ILO's Sectoral Activities Programme. Geneva, ILO, 2000. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/sectors/shipbrk/film/index.htm

ARTICLES FROM THE PRESS LEGAL PERIODICALS LOUISE DE LA FAYETTE, 'The Marine Environment Protection Committee: The conjunction of the law of the sea and international environmental law'. "This article outlines the work of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO in implementing measures to protect the marine environment and to conserve natural

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resources called for in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and international law, in particular as set forth in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration" - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARINE AND COASTAL LAW (June 2001) , pp 155-238 LOUISE DE LA FAYETTE, 'IMO: Achievements in 2001' - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW (June 2002) , pp 146-151 'The Green Passport: An aid to safe and environmentally conscious ship recycling'. "Apostolos Poulovassilis, Managing Director of Lloyd's Register EMEA's Piraeus Office and Anastasia Kouvertari, Environmental Co-ordinator, also based at the Piraeus Office, explains the operation of the Green Passport and considers its future development in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment for shipowners" - SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT LAWYER (Vol.5, No.4) , pp 30-31 MARTINE LE BIHAN GUENOLE, 'La fin du navire' - LE DROIT MARITIME FRANÇAIS, May 2006 (No.670), pp 446-456 TECHNICAL/TRADE PERIODICALS 'Environmental issues set new challenges for IMO'. "Single hull oil tankers and other post-Erika concerns were by no means the only priority of the latest meeting of the IMO MEPC 46. Environmentally harmful anti-fouling systems, contamination of local ecosystems by alien ballast water discharges, air pollution from ships' emissions and ship recycling featured prominently on the agenda" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER (June 2001) , p 6 'Disagreeing on the colour of mud'. "A report on the Mare Forum's 2nd Global Ship Recycling Summit" - FAIRPLAY (12 July 2001) , pp 15-18 'Industry lead on scrapping'. "The shipping industry has, for once, kept several steps ahead of the legislators in the ship scrapping game, concluded a number of shipping executives who attended the recent ship recycling summit in Rotterdam" - SEATRENDS WEB (6 July 2001) , p 2 'Shipbreaking code unveiled by industry'. "Answering health and environmental concern which have surfaced over the demolition of ships, the shipping industry has produced a code of practice on ship recycling" - LLOYD'S LIST (10 August 2001) , p 3 'Recycling code tackles hazards'. "A code of practice outlining measures that ship owners should take before disposing of ships was launched last week. It has been developed by a working party whose members represent seven industry organisations, led by the ICS, and the code commits those organisations "to promote safe operating and environmentally friendly practices in maritime operations"" - FAIRPLAY (16 August 2001) , p 21 'The scrapping code'. "What ICS secretary general, Chris Horrocks, described as a "tortuous process to produce a code with which the industry can and will comply" has reached its conclusion with the launch of the Industry Code of Practice On Ship Recycling" - SEATRENDS WEB (24 August 2001) , p 3 '"Recyclage" de navire citoyenneté'. "A code of practice outlining measures that shipowners should take before disposing of ships has been launched last week. It can be found on www.marisec " - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE (24 August 2001) , p 1507

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'Industry launches Ship Recycling Code'. "An inter-industry working party has launched an Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling, outlining the measures which shipowners should be prepared to take prior to disposing of redundant ships" - BIMCO BULLETIN (August 2001) , p 17 'Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling'. "Text" - BIMCO BULLETIN (August 2001) , pp I-XII 'Ship recycling code launched'. "The ICS has launched an ambitious code of practice on ship recycling, aiming to promote a greater awareness among shipowners of the environmental damage and threat to human safety posed by certain ship scrapping methods" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER (September 2001) , p 7

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'Green is the red hot topic'. "In the wake of high profile oil spills and concern about the ozone layer, the shipping industry is under pressure on the environmental front as never before. Sandra Speares investigates what is being done" - LLOYD'S LIST (21 September 2001) , p 17 'Code of practice for recycling'. "in response to growing concerns expressed by governments, environmental groups and the industry itself regarding the legal position on potential hazardous substances on vessels, working conditions and environmental controls at recycling yards, the industry has now developed a code of practice covering ship recycling" - LLOYD'S LIST (21 September 2001) , p 19 'Editorial: Alarms and recycling'. "Bimco's report on the decommissioning and recycling of ships and the capacity of the recycling industry offers a less frightened future. Produced along with Danish researchers MSR Consult, the report suggests a certain elasticity in scrapyard capacity, with the recyclers cranking up their facilities to meet the expected surge in demolition after 2003" - LLOYD'S LIST (28 September 2001) , p 7 'Scrap sector can cope says Bimco'. "A report on the demolition of single hulled tankers suggests that global recycling capacity will probably be able to cope with peaks as large numbers of vessels are forced out of service by IMO regulations" - LLOYD'S LIST (28 September 2001) , p 24 'From maker to breaker'. "An Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling has been launched by an inter-industry working party for testing and comment, outlining the measures which shipowners should be prepared to take prior to disposing of redundant ships" - SHIPPING WORLD & SHIPBUILDER (September 2001) , p 39 'Ship recycling and recycling capacity'. "in the light of the growing concern over insufficient capacity to handle the large numbers of tankers that will be recycled as part of the pre-Marpol phase out, Bimco initiated a study on the global capacity, resulting in a report entitled "Decommissioning and Recycling of Ships and the Capacity of the Recycling Industry"" - BIMCO BULLETIN (October 2001) , pp 22-35 LOUISE DE LA FAYETTE, 'Protection of the marine environment in 2000' - ENVIRONMENT POLICY AND LAW (June 2001) , pp 140-149 'Editorial: Recycling Basle'. "The IMO's MEPC last week found itself trying to answer all sort of unanswerable questions. When it had dealt with the nightmare of ballast handling, it turned its attention to the equally knotty problem of ship recycling where there has been a great deal of confused thinking led by environmental lobbies trying to fight on a dozen fronts at once" - LLOYD'S LIST (15 March 2002) , p 7 'Scrap progress'. "Progress has been made at IMO level on the increasingly sensitive ship scrapping issue. At last week's MEPC 47 two key issues in particular moved forward - the Basel Convention and IMO Guidelines for ship scrapping" - SEATRENDS WEB (15 March 2002) , pp 3-4 'ICS applauds IMO scrapping move'. "The decision of the IMO to embrace the existing industry code of practice on ship recycling has been welcomed by the International Chamber of Shipping" - LLOYD'S LIST (26 March 2002) , p 5 'Editorial: Recycling in tandem'. "There would appear to be some useful accord between the shipping industry and the IMO over the issue of ship recycling. The fact that the IMO is willing to endorse and adopt the industry's thinking on the issue and treat the code as a working document for its input is also hopeful" - LLOYD'S LIST (27 March 2002) , p 7 'Breaking up is hard to do'. "With Greenpeace and another bodies taking a keen interest, the shipping industry is doing its best to minimise the harmful effects of scrapping on the environment. This could make the process of scrapping far more complicated for shipowners than they imagined" - LLOYD'S SHIPPING ECONOMIST (April 2002) , pp 14-18 'Scrapping vision?'. "Mr Matser, of Greenpeace, urged Intertanko at the Rotterdam Tanker Event to take a positive step and agree three things on the subject of tanker scrapping" - SEATRENDS WEB (19 April 2002) , p 12 'The industry code of practice on ship recycling' - BIMCO BULLETIN (April 2002) , pp 7-8

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'IMO: move on ship recycling issue'. "IMO's MEPC agreed on a way forward on the ship recycling issue with the development of a draft Resolution and Guidelines for ship recycling, both of which it is hoped will be approved at the 2003 IMO assembly meeting" - PORTS & HARBORS (June 2002) , pp 19-20 'IMO environmental meeting ( MEPC 47th session) approves new measures on ballast water management for ships' - IMO NEWS (Issue 2, 2002) , pp 16-19 'Bulk liquids and gases sub-committee meeting (BLG), 7th session, 24-38 June 2002' - BIMCO BULLETIN (August 2002) , pp 14-15 'IMO green lights "Green Passport" initiative'. "The IMO is pressing ahead with the idea of a cradle-to-grave "Green Passport" for ships. But environmentalists are still angry that moves to clean up the scrapping industry will be voluntary" - TRADEWINDS (18 October 2002) , p 22 'Vessels may need a Green Passport'. "The 48th session of the MEPC of the IMO in October 2002 progressed its work in several key areas, including ship recycling, ballast water management and greenhouse gas emissions from ships" - SHIPPING WORLD AND SHIPBUILDER (Dec/Jan 2003) , p 40 'Green passport mooted for ships' - IMO NEWS (Issue 4, 2002) , p 6 ': MEPC meeting, 48th session, 7-11 October 2002: Green Passport for ships debated as IMO tackles ship recycling' - IMO NEWS (Issue 4, 2002) , pp 14-16 'Bulk liquids and gases - latest developments'. "Bimco attended the 8th session of the IMO's Sub-committee meeting on Bulk liquids and Gases held from 24-28 March 2003" - BIMCO BULLETIN (April 2003) , pp 18-19 'Bush leaves greens agog - Scrapping U-turn creates chaos'. "The whale has almost been saved, the ozone layer nearly patched up and the dogwhelk all but saved from TBT. So what's next on the green agenda, especially as Loyola de Palacio and Jose Maria Aznar have now made the world safe from tanker pollution? Well, the environmental industry - sorry, movement - is still dependent on media publicity and public support to create political momentum and sell t-shirts, which means that unglamorous or unpopular campaigns are out of the question. It's a safe bet that American and European motorists will not be picketed in their cars just yet, and the humble yet destructive plastic bag will go unmolested by activists. " - FAIRPLAY (15 May 2003) , p 4 'US set to break ranks on recycling - Greens angry at timing of Bush administration's decision'. "Greens angry at timing of Bush administration's decision. As the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) at IMO hones the text of its long-awaited guidelines on shipbreaking or 'ship recycling', which are due to be adopted later this year, critics of the Bush administration's environmental record are up in arms again, this time about its plans to break out of a moratorium on exporting ships for scrap. As highlighted recently in Fairplay's Daily News, environmentalists in the US say Washington is likely to select China to break an eight-year moratorium on scrapping US ships abroad. " - FAIRPLAY (15 May 2003) , pp 15-18 'Ban could make a US domestic breaking industry feasible'. "Although the US looks increasingly likely to break out of the moratorium on shipbreaking because the administration believes scrapping in the US is economically unfeasible, some experts believe that, if the ban remains in place, a viable, environmentally friendly shipbreaking industry could still be developed in the US." - FAIRPLAY (15 May 2003) , p 17 'Indians send protest letter to Bush'. "Towards the end of last year, Greenpeace, BAN, Toxics Link, the National Alliance of People's Movement (NAPM), the All India Trade Union Congress (CITU AITUC, Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and the Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) wrote to the Consul of the US in New Delhi, making plain their views about the Bush administration's plan to break out of the moratorium on exporting ships for scrap." - FAIRPLAY (15 May 2003) , p 18 'African nature reserve threatened'. "Environmental organizations including Greenpeace and a coalition of other international groups claim that a proposed shipbreaking yard in the West African country of Guinea Bissau could have an adverse effect on a nature reserve in the country that has been designated as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO." - FAIRPLAY (15 May 2003) , p 18

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'Opinion: Green demolition'. "The Dutch could be putting their money where their mouths have been by building what is touted as the first-ever zero-pollution ship-scrapping facility. The timing of the proposal is not bad. It would seem hypocritical of the European Union to kill off so many single-hull tankers for the environment's sake -- only to despatch them all to the beaches of Asia. " - TRADEWINDS (16 May 2003) , p 2 'Scrap revolution'. "A major ship demolition yard is being planned for the Netherlands to handle single hull facing early phase-out and to meet growing pressure for "green" scrapping. The EUR 30m ($34m) scheme in Eemshaven, endorsed by containership giant P&O Nedlloyd among others, intends to build initially a covered drydock for vessels up to 300 metres in length and of around 30,000 dwt. " - TRADEWINDS (16 May 2003) , p 3 'Letter: Time is ripe for policy on scrapping'. "Sir, during the last weeks and months, huge amounts of substandard tonnage has been scrapped mainly in the so called 'black triangle' of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, with smaller amounts in China. This sudden willingness to scrap elderly tonnage can be seen as a result of the all time high prices on steel in the region. Jan-Hugo Holten, Consultant shipping/pollution Norges Miljإvernforbund, Postboks 593, Marken 9, 5806 Bergen, Norway" - LLOYD'S LIST (23 May 2003) , p 5 'European owners take up recycling with Greenpeace'. "European shipowner representatives are to meet early next month with environmental group Greenpeace to discuss ship recycling. The Brussels meeting with Graeme Dunlop, new president of the European Community Shipowners' Association, follows a worldwide campaign by Greenpeace on the human and environmental hazards of shipbreaking in the third world." - LLOYD'S LIST (19 June 2003) , p 5 'Dunlop scrap talks with Greenpeace'. "European shipowner representatives have met Greenpeace in Brussels to discuss the maritime industry's progress towards environmentally friendly ship scrapping. Graeme Dunlop, the new president of the European Community Shipowners' Association, met a Greenpeace delegation led by Frank Petersen of Greenpeace Nederland. Both sides exchanged views on practical ways to tackle the significant health and environmental problems besetting ship-recycling yards in certain parts of the world." - LLOYD'S LIST (14 July 2003) , p 1 'Greenpeace says a "good try" failed'. "Greenpeace has branded the new ship-scrapping guidelines agreed at the IMO as "inadequate". The guidelines recommend that ships should carry a Green Passport, which would record hazardous cargoes carried by a vessel from the time it is built until it is scrapped. " - TRADEWINDS (25 July 2003) , p 7 'Single-hull phase-out tops MEPC agenda'. "Proposals to amend certain provisions of the MARPOL Convention relating to double-hull tankers are among the issues being discussed during the 49th session of the MEPC. The Committee is convening for a week-long session at IMO headquarters, from 14-18 July, under the chairmanship of Andreas Chrysostomou of Cyprus" - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT (17 July 2003) , pp 1-3 'Tees facility secures US defence fleet recycling deal'. "A recycling facility on the River Tees has been selected by the US Maritime Administration to demolish the 13 redundant US ships presently laid up in the James River, Virginia as part of the US National Defense Reserve Fleet Reserve Fleet. Able UK, which operates a large-scale recycling facility, chiefly used for the treatment of decommissioned offshore installations, successfully bid for the recycling contract, which will involve the 13 ships being disposed of in dry conditions in its Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre at Greatham, a giant drydock originally built for the construction of offshore platforms." - LLOYD'S LIST (1 August 2003) , p 5 'China: Responsible recycling'. "POLN has completed the first phase of its ship recycling project using new environmentally friendly procedures, which separate decontamination from demolition, to improve conditions for workers at its yards in China" - SHIPPING WORLD & SHIPBUILDER (July/August 2003) , p 12 'Editorial: Recycling cycles'. "The progression of industry around the globe is sometimes very strange. We read that the UK call centre "sector", much of which is located in the post-industrial towns of the North, is under attack from the Indian subcontinent, where honours graduates are delighted to work for about one-fifth of the wages of a redundant steel worker in Stockport to answer inquiries from the other end of the earth. Later this year, large-scale ship demolition - which we are enjoined to think of as "recycling" - will return to the UK after an absence of many years. A fleet of 13 time-expired US government ships will be towed into the River Tees, locked into a huge drydock and duly recycled, using the latest industrial techniques and providing employment for a couple of

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hundred additional workers. They could, one supposes, be redundant call centre workers, although this would be mere speculation." - LLOYD'S LIST (4 August 2003) , p 5 'MarAd goes ghost-busting'. "Ghost-busting has become a priority of the US Maritime Administration (Marad) as it strives to meet a mandated deadline to rid the country of its so-called 'ghost fleet' of rotting ships. Marad was given $31M this year by the US Congress to start disposing of the 74 most obsolete ships, some of which are leeching toxic substances. Some 133 inactive merchant ships of 1,500 GT or more are literally rotting in California, Texas and Virginia, more than half in Virginia's James River at Newport News. The largest single removal, of 15 ships, has been awarded to New York's Post-Service Remediation Partners (PRP). " - FAIRPLAY (7 August 2003) , p 8 'IMO MEPC agrees ship recycling guidelines; MARPOL Annexes; other matters' - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT (31 july 2003) , pp 2-4 'Royaume-Uni: démolition de navires américains' - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE (29 August 2003) , p 17 'How will scrapyards cope?'. "Concerns about the safety of old tonnage and the phase-out of single-hull tankers have brought ship demolition to the fore. Barry Luthwaite describes the current demolition market and looks at how scrapyards will handle an increase in business" - LLOYD'S SHIPPING ECONOMIST (September 2003) , pp 22-24 'Single hull tanker phase out takes centre stage'. "Many issues were discussed at the 49 session of te IMO's MEPC, including the recycling of ships, ballast water treatment, antifouling systems and the protection of fuel tanks, but the EU's proposed accelerated phase-out of sngle hull tankers was the subject of the most heated debate and may have the most far-reaching consequences" - SHIPPING WORLD AND SHIPBUILDER (September 2003) , pp 40-41 'IMO goes carefully on single hulls'. "A summary of the principal decisions impacting tanker shipping taken at the 49th session of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee" - TANKER OPERATOR (September/October 2003) , p 18 REDDY, M.S. et al'Quantification and classification of ship scrapping waste at Alang-Sosiya, India'. "This is the largest ship recycling in the world. Every year on average 365 ships having a mean weight are scrapped. This industry generates a huge quantity of solid waste in the form of broken wood, rubber, insulation materials, paper, metals, glass and ceramics, plastics, leather, textiles, food waste, chemical paints, thermocol, sponge, ash, oil mixed sponges, miscellaneous combustible and non-combustible" - MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN, December 2003 (Vol. 46/No. 12) , pp 1609-1614 'Andreas Chrysostomou - Chairman of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee speaks to ISO about the work and role of the committee' - ISO (International Ship Operator) (No.3, 2003) , pp 59-62 'Japan warns of new ghost ships danger'. "An over-zealous regulatory approach to upgrading demolition yards could create a new generation of 'ghost ships', a leading maritime nation has warned. Japan believes a "mismatch" between scrapping demand and scrapping yards could cause the "emergence of many 'ghost ships' in the world", a reference to the controversial plan to break up the fleet of old US naval reserve vessels in Britain, which has encountered fierce opposition. As the International Maritime Organisation meets to discuss ship recycling, Japan acknowledges there is increasing concern about environment, safety, health and welfare matters relating to the issue." - LLOYD'S LIST, 28 November 2003 (No.58544) , p 3 'Editorial: Break up'. "Setting up shipbreaking facilities in northern Europe may sound like a hare-brained scheme, given the strength of the conservationist lobby. But the British government deserves credit for investigating the idea. With so many ships likely to be heading for the scrapyards in the next few years as they reach the end of their commercial or legal lifespan, some better way of recycling redundant tonnage must be found." - LLOYD'S LIST, 23 February 2004 (No.58561) , p 5 'Not a ghost of a chance for able to use free publicity'. "The controversy surrounding the ghosts ships that were sent to Able UK for scrapping has raised the profile of the Teesside company, but it is in no position to benefit from the attention" - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 March 2004 (No.58617) , p 5

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'Greenpeace tells European owners to scrap at home'. "European Union owners should be compelled only to scrap ships in the EU rather than the third world, according to a campaign launched in Britain by Greenpeace yesterday. The environmental group has also called for "a state-of-the-art ship recycling industry to be developed in Britain"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 March 2004 (No.58623) , p 1 'UK minister drops hint on US quartet'. "Britain's minister responsible for shipbreaking has hinted that he supports giving Able UK the go-ahead to break four ships at present alongside its Hartlepool facility. The former US naval reserve vessels crossed the Atlantic last year, causing a storm of protests from environmentalists." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 March 2004 (No.58623) , p 1 'MEP backs scrap in Europe policy'. "A British Euro-MP has backed the Greenpeace campaign to compel EU shipowners to scrap vessels in Europe. David Bowe represents the Yorkshire and Humber constituency, and is Labour's environment spokesman in Europe." - LLOYD'S LIST, 26 March 2004 (No.58625) , p 3 'Green scrap lobby action'. "A pressure group is calling for the UK government to take a lead in green ship scrapping. An initiative to clean up shipbreaking has been launched in the UK. Environmental pressure group Greenpeace and partners want to head off a tide of single-hull tankers heading for the beaches of the Indian subcontinent and to put a stop to the scrapping of UK naval vessels there." - TRADEWINDS, 26 March 2004 (Vol.15, No.13) , p 11 'Greens: IMO scrap rules fail'. "An industry code of practice and International Maritime Organization guidelines on ship recycling are not working to protect workers or the marine environment, according to Greenpeace. The organisation has gone public with a critique of IMO guidelines it is offering this week's Marine Environment Protection Committee. While acknowledging the value of the voluntary measures, Greenpeace campaigner Marietta Harjono said that they did not contain the means to monitor observance or ensure compliance." - LLOYD'S LIST, 1 April 2004 (No.58629) , p 7 'Scrap rules killing India's breakers'. "International guidelines on ship recycling are killing India's shipbreaking yards, its operators' group claims. While India has strived to improve working conditions, other breaking countries have failed to implement IMO standards and are poaching Indian business as a result." - FAIRPLAY, 1 April 2004 (Vol.350, No.6270) , p 14 'Intertanko will demand ships carry "green passport"'. "Independent tanker owners' organisation Intertanko will require all new ships delivered to carry a "green passport", the association decided last week. The document will be carried throughout the life of the ship and will list hazardous or toxic substances carried on board." - LLOYD'S LIST, 5 April 2004 (No.58631) , p 3 'Revised ship sewage regulations set for adoption at IMO meeting' - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 April 2004 (Vol.27. No 14) , pp 1-3 'IMO MEPC adopts regulations; considers future work' - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 8 April 2004 (Vol.27. No 15) , pp 1-2 'Ghost ships should be recycled'. "Recycling the four US ghost ships at Able UK's Teeside site is the best environmental option, insisted the UK's environment minister, Elliot Morley, last month" - SAFETY AT SEA, May 2004 (Vol.38, No.423) , p 5 'Taking responsibility for scrapping'. "Shipbreaking guidelines completed by the IMO towards the end of last year are unlikely to change the situation in developing countries where most ship scrapping or recycling takes place, it is argued" - SHIPPING WORLD AND SHIPBUILDER, March 2004 (Vol.205, No.4200) , pp 12-14 'Breaking up is hard to do - and please everyone'. "P&O Nedlloyd has been in the forefront of those who are trying to change the hearts and minds of some of those engaged in ship demolition." - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 May 2004 (No.58663) , p 7 'US Bill introduced to stimulate ship scrapping'. "Pennsylvania Republican Phil English has introduced a Bill in the House of Representatives to stimulate the scrapping of ships in the US by waiving temporarily a broad range of environmental safeguards, writes John McLaughlin in New York. Though the text of the Bill was not yet available, Bob Holste, Mr English's chief of staff, described it as an attempt to stimulate ship scrapping at a time when the

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steel industry was suffering acute shortages of scrap feed. He noted Mr English is chairman of the congressional steel caucus." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 May 2004 (No.58664) , p 3 'Ship recycling'. "Greenpeace and others have been lobbying long and hard to clean up the recycling industry, which is mainly located these days in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey" - CRUISE & FERRY INFO, July/August 2004 (Nos.7-8) , p 4 'Concern at Basel Convention cause dilemmas on recycling'. "The Ministry of Transport has been diligent in offering its experience and guidance on the question of ship recycling, presenting formulated rules to the Marine Environmental Protection Committee of the IMO in March. It is a commitment the ministry would like to continue and but it is the disconnection between the IMO framework and the context of the Basel convention which is causing concern." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 July 2004 (No.58698) , p VIII 'Practical sense on ship recycling' - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2004 (Vol.99, No.2) , pp 36-37,41 'Geographical shift send ripples through IMO' - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2004 (Vol.99, No.2) , pp 40-41 KATIW PAUL, 'Exporting responsibility - Shipbreaking in South Asia - International trade in hazardous waste' - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW, April 2004 (Vol.34, No.2) , pp 73-78 '"Ghost ships" review presses for improved regulatory procedures'. "Two official reviews of the lessons learnt from last year's US "ghost ships" saga have pointed to weaknesses in Environment Agency and Government policy which contributed to the fiasco. Nonetheless, the Agency maintains that the ship recycler Able UK held ultimate responsibility to ensure that all the consents were in place before importing the vessels. Able UK's contract to dismantle 13 obsolete US military ships on Teesside precipitated a bitter campaign by community and environmental groups last year. The media spotlight intensified while the vessels were mid-Atlantic, with Ministers proving powerless to prevent the first four ships arriving in Able's Hartlepool yard, despite the fact that it lacked the necessary regulatory consents " - ENDS REPORT, May 2004 (No.352) , pp 18-19 'India must sort out its breakers'. "Shipbreakers at Alang-Sosiya Beach on India's West Coast are heaving a huge collective sigh of relief, having persuaded the new Congress-led government to reverse its predecessors' decision to increase customs duties on demolition tonnage to 15 per cent from five per cent." - FAIRPLAY, 5 August 2004 (Vol.351, No.6288) , p 2 '"Ghost ships" a haunting reminder of recycling dilemma'. "Four ageing US Navy vessels moored in the British northeast port of Hartlepool represent a curious symbol of the developed world's dilemma about recycling ships. The ships were sent from the US to the UK rather than, say, India because of the former country's ostensible policy of responsible disposal. This pleased some environmentalists such as Greenpeace which campaigns against what it sees as dumping by the West of "toxic waste" in poor countries." - LLOYD'S LIST, 26 August 2004 (No.58731) , p 9 'Debate on shipbreaking hots up'. "The Able UK saga has taken place as the international debate over shipbreaking has rumbled on. Next month the round table of shipping industry associations is due to discuss the possibility of making some parts of the voluntary guidelines adopted last year by the International Maritime Organization mandatory. Brian Parkinson of round table member, the International Chamber of Shipping, says there are no objections to making the holding of a gas-free certificate and the maintenance of an inventory of hazardous shipboard materials mandatory." - LLOYD'S LIST, 26 August 2004 (No.58731) , p 9 'Detained Sandrien to be scrapped at last'. "After nearly four years, work is due to begin on the Sandrien, the asbestos-ridden vessel that was detained in the Port of Amsterdam in the 'spirit of the Basel ban'. If all goes to plan the Sandrien will be history by spring 2005. Detained in early 2001 at Shipdock, which was previously named Amsterdam Shiprepair, the Dutch government believed that the chemical tanker contained hazardous materials, including chemicals and asbestos, and was on its way to the beaches of Alang without being cleaned up." - LLOYD'S LIST, 31 August 2004 (No.58734) , p 3 'Breakers take a nosedive'. "Shipbreaking in South Asia is in crisis. Skyrocketing prices and relentless competition from Bangladesh and China has taken a toll, leaving many yards facing ruin. Even the recent flurry of lacklustre interventions from the Indian and Pakistani governments has not been enough to stem the decline in most areas." - FAIRPLAY, 9 September 2004 (Vol.352, No.6293) , pp 12-13

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'Cleaning up its act'. "The age of "green shipbreaking" is on the horizon and is inspiring some novel engineering solutions" - MER (MARINE ENGINEERS REVIEW), July/August 2004, pp 10-14 'Green scrapping gets underway'. "An elderly chemical tanker, "Sandrien", abandoned in Amsterdam by its owners four years ago is to be the first vessel broken up using new environmentally friendly techniques that could become commonplace if new, purpose-built ship recycling facilities are established" - FAIRPLAY SOLUTIONS, October 2004 (No.97) , pp 8-9 'IMO agenda sees ship recycling shift'. "In a subtle but significant shift, International Maritime Organization administrations have agreed to consider whether and how ship recycling might become subject to mandatory provision. The relationship between guidelines under development at IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee on ship recycling and the Basel Convention on hazardous wastes and their disposal will not be fully explored until next February, when both organisations meet in a joint working group that also includes the International Labour Organisation. However, yesterday saw signs that IMO administrations have renewed determination to get to grips with an issue sidelined by MEPC's recent heavy agenda." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 October 2004 (No.58764) , p 3 'IMO recycling plan gains support from Green lobby and industry'. "The first building blocks of a future international mandatory scheme for ship recycling have been outlined in an initial list agreed by the International Maritime Organization. At the closing session of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee on Friday, both Greenpeace and the industry working party on ship recycling supported the draft list, which the committee endorsed by consensus and referred for further priority work inter-sessionally." - LLOYD'S LIST, 19 October 2004 (No.58769) , p 3 'Spat over breaking breakthrough'. "In a dramatic shift from current IMO policy, international governments last week agreed to begin developing a groundbreaking, 'mandatory' ship-scrapping regime. But behind the scenes, accusations of 'heavy diplomatic games' and an emerging inter-agency turf war have called into question the global acceptability of any new plans." - FAIRPLAY, 21 October 2004 (Vol.352, No.6299) , p 8 'Granatina becomes first ship to pocket green passport'. "Shell International's liquefied natural gas carrier Granatina has become the first vessel in the world to win a 'green passport' for full compliance with International Maritime Organization guidelines on ship recycling. According to Lloyd's Register - which made the award - the verification was the result of months of collaboration between the company's technical management, the crew and the classification society itself." - LLOYD'S LIST, 3 November 2004 (No. 58,780) , p. 12 'Green joy over ship scrap clamp'. "Environmentalists have claimed a major victory on ship dismantling, after a Basel Convention conference on Friday urged the IMO to press on and develop mandatory shipbreaking rules" - LLOYD'S LIST, 2 November 2004 (No.58779) , p 1 'Nations move to improve demolition'. "Environment ministers and senior officials from 163 countries have adopted a set of decisions to enhance the dismantling of obsolete ships in an environmentally sound way world-wide. This included calls for the International Maritime Organization to establish mandatory requirements. Following four days of round the clock expert negotiations chaired by Roy Watkinson of the UK, state parties to the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal agreed to invite the IMO to "consider the establishment of mandatory requirements, including a reporting system for ships destined for dismantling, that ensure an equivalent level of control as established under the Basel Convention"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 2 November 2004 (No.58779) , p 3 'Letter: Recycling move is a victory for all'. "SIR, Your front page story 'Green joy over ship scrap clamp' (Lloyd's List, November 2) repeated almost verbatim a press release from the Basel Action Network and Greenpeace. It stated that at last week's meeting of the Parties to the Basel Convention, "representatives from 163 countries . saw off resistance from the US and Japan to agree that end-of-life ships could be considered toxic waste by international law" and that "the affirmation means that ships destined for breaking will need the prior consent of recipient countries, while assurances must also be given that shipbreaking will be performed in an environmentally sound manner." Torben C. Strand, Trade & Operations Adviser, BIMCO, Brian Parkinson, Senior manager, International Chamber of Shipping" - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 November 2004 (No.58781) , p 6 'Letter: "Waste" not wanted at Basel Convention'. "SIR, It is disingenuous to claim, as a prominent environmental lobby has, that it has scored a "victory" regarding the Basel Convention and the ship recycling issue, as it is in fact

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a victory for all concerned - International Maritime Organisation, International Labor Organisation and the Basel Convention - in the process of devising a practical and pragmatic legal framework for the safe and environmentally friendly disposal of end-of-life ships. Dr Gill Reynolds, Environmental Co-ordinator, Lloyd's Register" - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 November 2004 (No.58781) , p 6 'Lookout: Don't surf on my turf!'. "A slick media manoeuvre by Greenpeace has served to get the issue of scrapping back onto the front pages this week. But was it all smoke and mirrors?. What can be more fun than watching a turf war between lobby groups and regulators? Ship scrapping has ruffled plenty of feathers lately, but the latest three-way scrap between Greenpeace, the IMO and the Basel Convention has raised some serious hackles. Last week, the normally sane and reasonable Greenpeace International sent a triumphant message to the world's press, chortling that the Basel Convention had defined scrap ships as waste, thereby dealing a "serious blow" to the "global trade in toxic ships"." - FAIRPLAY, 4 November 2004 (Vol.352, No.6301) , pp 1-2 'MPs call for UK to lead way in shipbreaking revolution'. "Report claims developed nations need to ensure that shipbreaking occurs in a safe and secure environment" - LLOYD'S LIST, 11 November 2004 (No.58786) , p 1 'Able embraces "vindicating" report over ghost ship row'. "Able UK - the Hartlepool-based breaking yard at the centre of last year's 'ghost ship' row - sees yesterday's parliamentary committee report on the industry as "vindication" of its actions. Meanwhile, the environmental lobby is split on the document. Greenpeace has come out in strong support, while the more radical Friends of the Earth grouping has criticised some of the findings. The reactions come after publication of a report on shipbreaking from the House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs committee." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 November 2004 (No.58787) , p 3 'Editorial: Responsible recycling'. "Fired up by the furore of the "ghost ships", which arrived last year on the River Tees to environmentalist breast-beating, it was probably useful to have a sensible review of the ship demolition world as seen from the UK. Yesterday's publication of the report into ship dismantling by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee shows that the cross-party group of MPs has grasped the basics of a difficult problem in which many different views compete." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 November 2004 (No.58787) , p 5 'Clean scrapping - a fore state of the future?'. "The long-awaited scrapping of the Sandrien heralds the start of clean scrapping in Europe. Shipyard Amsterdam Ship Repair (ASR) has started preliminary dismantling work on the abandoned toxic chemical tanker Sandrien. ASR and the environmentally-friendly scrapyard Ecodock were given the go-ahead by the Dutch environment ministry on 5 November. The removal of waste and the emptying of its tanks will take three to four months, after which Ecodock can begin scrapping." - FAIRPLAY, 11 November 2004 (Vol.352, No.6302) , pp 4-5 'Dutch carry chem tanker scrap costs'. "Amsterdam Ship Repair has started the demolition of the "Sandrien". The Dutch government has agreed to pay out EUR 2m ($2.54m) to rid itself of the nuisance chemical tanker Sandrien. Work started this week cleaning the 33,900-dwt ship of asbestos and approximately 9,000 tonnes of cargo. The project is expected to take around seven months." - TRADEWINDS, 12 November 2004 (Vol.15, No.46) , p 22 'Ecodoc intends to start next spring'. "Ecodock says it still plans to have a green scrapping facility up and running at Eemshaven by 2006. Spokeswoman Monique Arends claims several parties have said they will help finance the EUR 50m ($63.4m) project but she admits this depends on Ecodock first securing contracts." - TRADEWINDS, 12 November 2004 (Vol.15, No.46) , p 22 'Able UK's Stephenson says scrapping tide has turned'. "Controversial shipbreaking yard Able UK used Friday's anniversary of the arrival of the first "ghost ship" in 2003 to thank supporters and argue that the tide of public opinion on the scrapping question was changing. The comments came just one day after the House of Commons environment committee published a report on the sector maintaining that Britain should offer state support to encourage a thriving shipbreaking industry." - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 November 2004 (No.58788) , p 14 'Revised Marpol Annex I, Annex II and IBC Code adopted at Environment meeting'. "Revised regulations to prevent marine pollution by ships carrying chemicals were adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO when it met for its 52nd session from 11-15 October 2004" - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 28 October 2004 (Vol.27, No.44) , pp 1-4 'UK urged to tackle scrapping industry'. "The UK government urgently needs to develop a domestic shipbreaking industry as an alternative to the "wholly unacceptable" conditions in Third World breaking yards, according to a

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panel of British politicians. After a nine-month enquiry, the House of Commons select committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last week concluded that the UK has the potential to establish an industry in ship dismantling "which can be done safely and offer economic benefits to the community"." - FAIRPLAY, 18 November 2004 (Vol.352, No.6303) , p 6 'Letter: Greenpeace: battle over Basel'. "With interest and surprise, we read Fairplay's editorial on the "turf war" between the International Maritime Organization and the Basel Convention over shipbreaking. Fairplay and the shipping industry hope the world will forget that the Basel Convention is a legally binding treaty, created to prevent the human rights abuses that occur when poor countries and communities are disproportionately burdened by the world's hazardous wastes." - FAIRPLAY, 18 November 2004 (Vol.352, No.6303) , p 15 'Lloyd's Register gets behind the Green Passport'. ""The safe and environment-friendly disposal of ships at the end of their useful lives is a major issue for the industry as a whole, but it has become an even more pressing issue for the tanker sector as a result of the European Union's accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers," says Pete Townsend, senior project engineer in Lloyd's Register's research and development department." - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 December 2004 (No.58810) , p 14 'Annual Review 2004'. "Special Report" - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 December 2004 (No.58819) , pp I-XVI 'Giving teeth to ship recycling'. "With apparently few incentives for shipowners to comply with its ship recycling guidelines, IMO is reconsidering the issue" - TANKER OPERATOR, Nov/Dec 2004 (Vol.4, No.1) , p 11 'Industry gets to grips with recycling issue.'. "Shipping goes into next month's meeting between the International Maritime Organisation, the International Labor Organisation and the Basel Convention convinced it is taking steps to ensure the issue of ship recycling remains in the gift of IMO." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 January 2005 (No.58835) , p 3 'Breaking up is hard to do' - BIMCO BULLETIN, December 2004 (Vol.99, No.6) , pp 44-48 'Demolishcon incorporates IMO guidelines' - BIMCO BULLETIN, December 2004 (Vol.99, No.6) , p 49 'Greenpeace "utter failure" slur halts UN ship scrapping talks'. "Greenpeace yesterday caused uproar with an all-out attack on attempts to strike a United Nations deal on shipbreaking. This week's talks on the question at the International Maritime Organization were branded an "utter failure" after being "hijacked by shipping industry interests"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 February 2005 (No.58854) , p 3 'Global programme for ship scrapping is on the cards'. "Three United Nations agencies, including the International Maritime Organization, are considering the idea of a global technical co-operation programme on ship scrapping. In addition, the IMO will progress its earlier proposal for an international ship recycling fund. Meanwhile, an international legally binding instrument will be introduced cover the abandonment of obsolete vessels." - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 February 2005 (No.58855) , p 3 'Editorial: Basel still faulty'. "The furious invective from environmental activists who failed to get their way at the meeting of the Basel Convention, the International Maritime Organization and International Labour Organisation over ship recycling should not be allowed to hide the progress that has been made over this delicate issue. The shipping industry is aware of its responsibilities in this direction (perhaps because of the activity of activists) and worthwhile improvements are being put in hand." - LLOYD'S LIST, 22 February 2005 (No.58856) , p 7 'Au Royaume-Uni: Appel international au recyclage de vieux navires' - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 11 February 2005 (No.4442) , p 18 'Lookout: Don't mention the turf war, Basel'. "Success is a fickle concept. Ask the IMO if its latest attempt to grapple with the global dilemma of shipbreaking was a triumph and it will point to the significant amount of work participants managed to get through at last week's inter-UN agency pow-wow. Speak to Greenpeace and you can expect to be harangued at length on how the whole event was an "utter failure" that descended into a turf war. The truth, as ever, lies somewhere in the middle, obscured by rhetoric and vested interests on all sides. But while the usual suspects got down to debating the intricacies of 'overlapping agency roles' and their 'terms of reference' in London, a largely overlooked report from India's Comptroller and Auditor General was published, offering us a rare and sobering account of the real issue at stake here. " - FAIRPLAY, 3 March 2005 (Vol.353, No.6317) , p 2

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'IMO calls scrap forum a success'. "Despite industry complaints of missed opportunities and a statement from Greenpeace declaring the whole exercise an "utter failure", a ship recycling forum was a significant step forward, IMO officials declared. Working groups from the IMO, the International Labour Organization and the Basel Convention met in London last week to co-ordinate their work and avoid overlapping efforts by the three UN agencies. Greenpeace had complained that the meeting failed to propose new recycling programmes or even to urge cleaning ships in developed countries before scrapping vessels in ill-equipped Third World yards. IMO officials responded that such proposals were never on the agenda. "The meeting achieved what we were asked to achieve within the terms of reference," Sokratis Dimakopoulos, the IMO's environment officer, told Fairplay. " - FAIRPLAY, 3 March 2005 (Vol.353, No.6317) , p 8 'MarAd ghost ships broadside'. "US Maritime Administration efforts to dispose of more than 100 obsolete vessels have fallen woefully behind schedule due to bad management. As a result MarAd will not meet its congressional deadline for disposal of the vessels - many contaminated - docked around the US." - LLOYD'S LIST, 10 March 2005 (No.58868) , p 16 'Ghost ship fiasco returns to haunt UK and US'. "LAST week's decision by a US Federal judge to clear the way for more former US naval ships to be scrapped in the UK has mobilised environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic and signalled the return of a political row that has already rumbled on for two years. US environmentalists who filed a suit to halt the export of the vessels to British scrapping firm Able UK had their case dashed on procedural and technical grounds last Wednesday. While there is a strong possibility that they may appeal, for the time being the ruling opens the way for the remaining nine of 13 ships to be sent to Able to complete the $17.8M contract with the US Maritime Administration (MarAd)." - FAIRPLAY, 10 March 2005 (Vol.353, No.6318) , pp 4-5 'Agencies adopt coordinated approach to ship scrapping as joint working group makes progress'. "A Joint Working Group on ship scrapping established by the IMO, ILO, and the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal recently held its first meeting at IMO headquarters in London" - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 3 March 2005 (Vol.28, No.10) , pp 1-3 'James River ghost ship cleanup complete'. "The US Maritime Administration has met its commitment to remove the ten worst 'ghost ships' from the James River reserve fleet in less than 10 months. The ageing merchant vessels have been mothballed in Virginia for years, posing an increasing environmental problem. Four of the ships were towed to Britain in 2003 for breaking at Able UK, although the surrounding controversy means that the work has still to start." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 March 2005 (No.58874) , p 5 'Why green scrapping initiatives should not be swept under the table'. "Emotivespictures of workers on the beaches of Alang, ripping apart the most lethal forms of asbestos with their bare hands, undoubtedly makes the responsible players in the industry feel the need to change the recycling business. But when the images have been forgotten, until the next conference, what is actually being done to improve the situation? A Lloyd's List Events conference held in Amsterdam this week looked at issues from ship scrapping to recycling and asked if there is a willingness to change?" - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 April 2005 (No.58892) , p 5 'Eco-scrapping for India?'. "Amid increasing opposition from Greenpeace and local Indian fishermen, Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh state on the east coast being is touted as the next destination for junk ships. As leading Indian scrapper Alang loses its grip and more stringent regulations relating to labour and quality take centre stage, ship breakers' interest is turning to Kakinada, a sleepy village hitherto famous for off-coast gas-finds." - FAIRPLAY, 14 April 2005 (Vol.353, No.6323) , p 12 'On the beach: disagreement smoulders over dismantling'. "Many shipbreaking practices remain a cause of concern but there is still a long way to go when it comes to enforcing safe vessel recycling" - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 April 2005 (No.58896) , p 7 'Editorial: Before the flood'. "As various polite notes are exchanged between the environment ministers of Denmark and India, over the ancient rail ferry Kong Frederik IX, now chugging its way to the demolition beaches of Alang, it is becoming clear that the controversies surrounding ship recycling will not go away. Moreover, in this somewhat circular debate, there is a disturbing lack of progress, as the various participants snipe at each other, from their entrenched positions. There are the big pictures, as represented by the applicability or otherwise, of the Basle Convention and the academic definitions of "waste" and "hazard"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 22 April 2005 (No.58897) , p 5

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'Flood of green regulations will bring upheaval'. "There are major changes on the way for the shipping industry this year as several new maritime regulations come into force on the back of environmental concerns. Shipowners are having to contend with a raft of new regulations and rules being enforced by the International Maritime Organization and European Union in the wake of public pressure to improve environmental standards. The most widespread of these new rules will be the Marpol Annex VI regulations on sulphur emissions that are to be limited to below 4.5 per cent." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 April 2005 (No.58898) , p 10 'Demolition sector steps up standards'. "A more pressure is applied to the ship demolition industry to improve its standards, it is responding with safety drives and plans to build facilities in Europe. Issues affecting the shipbreaking industry were discussed earlier this month at a Lloyd's List Events conference in Amsterdam." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 April 2005 (No.58898) , p 10 'Lobby groups call for focus on European shipbreaking'. "Environmental groups are showing increasing interest in ship demolition activities and are calling for more ships to be scrapped in Europe than in Asian yards. Greenpeace is becoming more vocal in its concerns for the environment and safety of the workforce in the shipbreaking industry. This month it lobbied the European Union, flag states and Asian governments to reverse the tide of ships heading to developing nations for demolition" - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 April 2005 (No.58898) , p 10 'Breaking up is hard to do'. "The failure of international bodies to stamp out deadly conditions at scrap operations could bring more heavy-handed local laws. A race has begun within the shipping industry to find alternatives that are both effective and commercially viable." - FAIRPLAY, 28 April 2005 (Vol.353, No.6325) , pp 16-18 'Why poor nations stymie consensus'. "The key to success in the Clarkson's-backed talks between owners and brokers on a new shipbreaking system will be persuading the governments of shipbreaking countries to implement and enforce standards, shipping leaders tell Fairplay. That's something that has continually proved to be a stumbling block within existing international forums. An attempt to impose new measures on the scrapping industry of one country's but not another's would naturally cause an imbalance of trade, something all governments are keen to avoid. In a paper submitted to the January joint IMO/ILO/Basel Convention forum, Bangladesh officials spelled out what was at stake: "In the absence of any domestic source of iron ore, Bangladesh has to depend on steel from scrapped ships, [which] provides about 80" . " of the country's needs. "Ship recycling is an industry that Bangladesh cannot afford to lose," the paper pointed out. Thus, governments of breaking states are dragging their heels politically on accepting the need for change. " - FAIRPLAY, 28 April 2005 (Vol.353, No.6325) , pp 19 'Regulatory crackdown is required to clean up shipbreaking'. "A legally binding system is necessary to deal with the issue of scrapping ships, according to Hague-based environmental lawyer Bernard Veldhoven of Veldhoven Ozinga Advocaten. Speaking at a Lloyd's List Events conference on ship recycling in Amsterdam, Mr Veldhoven put forward a number of arguments for a legally binding system. These included the fact that "conflicting interests lead to reluctance to change and improvement on a voluntary basis is not to be expected"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 May 2005 (No.58904) , p 6 'Denmark seeks international alliance to tighten demolition rules'. "The Danish government is seeking to form an international alliance to push through tighter international rules on ship demolition. Two ministers have written to their Indian counterparts raising concern about the pending scrapping of ex-Danish ferries on Alang beach, though they concede they can do little to stop it." - LLOYD'S LIST, 6 May 2005 (No.58906) , p 3 'Letter: A new convention is the way to stop unsafe ship scrapping'. "For about seven years now the International Maritime Organization and the International Labour Organisation have been talking about recycling ships in a safe and environmentally acceptable manner. It is a noble cause. We all have the same common goal but unfortunately we do not have a common approach to achieve the goal. For some reason the IMO and the ILO think that the Basel Convention is applicable. F R Chowdhury, 10 Wakefield Gardens, Ilford" - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 May 2005 (No.58910) , p 5 'The scrap over ship recycling'. "The long awaited phase-out of single-hull oil tankers came into force on April 5, intensifying the thorny issue of ship scrapping" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER, May 2005, p 10 'Indian scrap proposal runs into trouble'. "Plans by India's Andhra Pradesh state government to set up a shipbreaking yard at Kakinada on the east coast have met violent protests and threats of legal action from citizens'

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groups. Kakinada Ratepayers' Association, the Citizens' Forum, Consumers' Council and Telephone Users' Association have unanimously condemned the proposal to allow shipbreaking units." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 May 2005 (No.58916) , p 5 'Recycling issues - looking ahead to MEPC 53'. "At the London headquarters of the IMO, a Joint Working Group on ship recycling established by IMO, ILO and the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention concluded its first meeting in February this year" - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2005 (Vol.100, No.2) , pp 30-32 'Inter-agency group studies safer streamlined scrapping'. "Complex legal framework and overlapping jurisdiction fields complicate ship disposal and recycling, so the three main international organisations interested in the field (IMO, ILO and the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention) have recently established a new joint working group" - PORTS AND HARBORS, May 2005 (Vol.50 No.2) , p 40 'EU stance on shipbreaking "unanimous"'. "The Council of the European Union has taken the unusual step of going on record to register that member states are unanimous in their position on ship dismantling. In the run-up to next month's Marine Environmental Protection Committee at the International Maritime Organization, the council called on IMO to establish mandatory reporting on ship disposal that offered control equivalent to the Basel Convention." - LLOYD'S LIST, 27 June 2005 (No.58941) , p 1 'Bloc voting could damage scrapping'. "Enforced EU-wide support for new controls in ship scrapping could further slow down international attempts to improve safety and environmental standards. The prospect of a stand-off between industry supporters and EU environmentalists emerged last week after a pronouncement by the EU's Environment Council urging the IMO to establish mandatory reporting requirements. The council's statement was interpreted by Greenpeace as a clear indication of EU support for the Basel Convention, the International Chamber of Shipping labelled this "yet more Greenpeace misinformation". " - FAIRPLAY, 30 June 2005 (Vol.354, No.6334) , p 7 'India breakers face boycott campaign'. "Greenpeace, the Basel Action Network and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions have changed tactics on shipbreaking and are demanding a boycott of Indian breakers. The group, which had been lobbying for 'clean shipbreaking', says it no longer considers India an acceptable destination for any ship recycling. With shipbreaking on the agenda at this month's IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee, the group claimed that India had a "blatant disregard for the environment, human rights and international law"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 July 2005 (No.58952) , p 1 'Talks on new ship demolition guidelines inching forward'. "Global talks have inched forward on crafting new practical and mandatory guidelines to oversee ship scrapping, with the International Maritime Organization urged to incorporate existing global hazardous waste norms, diplomats and experts said. "The goal is to make sure the objectives of the Basel Convention on environmentally sound management of obsolete ships is upheld whoever does the job," Sachiko Yamamoto, executive secretary of the Basel Convention secretariat, told Lloyd's List. Last November, the 163 state parties to the convention on the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and disposal agreed to invite the IMO "to consider the establishment of mandatory requirements, including a reporting system for ships destined for dismantling that ensure an equivalent level of control"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 July 2005 (No.58953) , p 3 'India slammed over Risky scrapping decision'. "The position taken in Geneva by India's Environment and Forests Ministry has proved a shock to the delegates and puzzled environmentalists and lawyers in India. The ministry not only permitted the demolition of the allegedly asbestos-laden and unsafe 51-year-old Danish ferry Rikyat the Alang shipbreaking yard but publicly stated that it had no intention of adhering to the Basel Convention Guidelines on Environmentally Sound Ship Dismantling." - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 July 2005 (No.58953) , p 3 'Recycling is a shore-based industry' - BIMCO BULLETIN, June 2005 (Vol.100, No.3) , pp 24-26 'Editorial: Demolishing the facts'. "With the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee due to grasp the nettle of ship recycling issues next week, green pressure groups who adhere to the Basel Convention solutions have been stepping up their pressure. They fail to see that better treatment of ship demolition needs gradual solutions, which take account of the livelihood of tens of thousands of workers in the sub-continent." - LLOYD'S LIST, 14 July 2005 (No.58954) , p 7

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'IMO to discuss alternative proposals on vessel recycling regulations'. "An alternative work programme on ship recycling will be presented by an industry working group to the International Maritime Organisation today, writes a Special Correspondent. The proposal, detailed in a seven-page document called "The way ahead - practical and pragmatic", focuses on "more immediate and workable measures" than the alternatives submitted in a 52-page IMO correspondence group report." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 July 2005 (No.58956) , p 3 'Editorial: alternative scrapping'. "In the long and convoluted arguments now taking place about how best to "recycle" ships, there is a good deal of confusion about what is appropriate to ships that are now on the drawing board and clearly of the future and the vast rump of tonnage that is up to half a century old and must somehow be disposed of sensibly." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 July 2005 (No.58958) , p 7 'IMO set on legal regime for scrap'. "Saving lives and the environment are top priority for the London body. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is moving towards a legally enforceable ship-scrapping regime. Its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) was this week expected to commit the organisation to making some recycling measures mandatory, with the aim of safeguarding lives and the environment, which are currently of only guideline status. The move will appease certain countries such as India, which in a paper to the 53rd session of the MEPC in London, says the industry appears to be failing to apply measures voluntarily." - TRADEWINDS, 22 July 2005 (Vol.16, No.29) , p 19 'EC highlights problems of enforcing Basel Convention'. "The Basel Convention ban on exporting hazardous waste can be applied to ships only when they become waste in European waters, which rarely happens, according to the European Commission. Enforcing the Basel Convention becomes a "problem" when the convention comes into conflict with other International Maritime Organization conventions, says Brussels Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. " - LLOYD'S LIST, 3 August 2005 (No.58968) , p 1 SOKRATIS DIMAKOPOULOS, 'The IMO's work on ship recycling' - IMO NEWS, 2005 (Issue 2, pp 18-20) 'Class gets over scrapping shyness'. "Global talks have moved forward on developing practical and mandatory guidelines to oversee ship scrapping. The consensus has emerged from meetings involving the IMO, the International Labour Organization and the Basel Convention. The clearer direction being pursued by the IMO's Maritime Environment Protection Committee has left the door open to class societies to get involved on a practical level. Despite interest from Lloyd's Register, DNV and Germanischer Lloyd - as well as IACS acting as a stakeholder observer within IMO debates - class has been largely unprepared to stick its head above the parapet on the issue of scrapping. Class insiders suggest to Fairplay that the political sensitivities have contributed to the unwillingness to get involved. But others point to a widespread lack of clarity about the problem. In the case of one society, initial questions to owners produced so little response and such confusion about class societies' role that any development of practical measures was postponed until the international debate progresses." - FAIRPLAY, 18 August 2005 (Vol.354, No.6341) , p 19 'Indian court demands answers over "toxic" ship scrapping at Alang'. "India's Supreme Court has issued notice on an application alleging that the government permitted dismantling of the allegedly toxic ex-Danish ship Riky at the world's largest shipbreaking yard at Alang in gross violation of its orders and international law. A bench headed by Justice YK Sabharwal asked the Customs Department, the Monitoring Committee appointed by the apex court in 2003 and others to respond to the allegations within two weeks." - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 September 2005 (No.58998) , p 5 'IMO aims at "green" disposal of ships'. "New rules intended to improve ship scrapping standard around the world should be agreed within the next four years, the IMO has promised" - TELEGRAPH, September 2005 (Vol.38, No.9) , p 8 'Brussels admits single-hull phase out will damage environment'. "Ships scrapped as the result of the European Union's single-hull phasing out programme will cause environmental damage and health problems for workers in the third world, the European Commission has admitted. While the negative impact of the policy decided in Brussels was inevitable, the commission was powerless to do anything about it, said environment commissioner Stavros Dimas." - LLOYD'S LIST, 23 September 2005 (No.59004) , p 1 'Scrappers eye alternatives as ships grow scarce'. "The Indian ship-scrapping industry has about twice the capacity of the tonnage currently available for demolition and may turn to other activities if supply does not pick up, according to Steel Scrap & Shipbreakers' Association of India president Pravin Nagarsheth. He says the ship-

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scrapping sector is sitting on around 12 million tonnes of capacity, against the normal availability of six million tonnes of vessels for demolition." - TRADEWINDS, 23 September 2005 (Vol.16, No.38) , p 14 'Letter: Ship recycling and the Basel Convention'. "SIR, Your front page (Lloyd's List, September 23) reported the remarks of the European Union Environment Commissioner about the implications for ship recycling created by the accelerated phase out of single-hull tankers, and repeated the shibboleth that recycling redundant ships in developing countries is illegal under the Basel Convention. Simon Bennett, Secretary, International Chamber of Shipping" - LLOYD'S LIST, 29 September 2005 (No.59008) , p 6 'ILO puts Indian ship scrapping in the dock'. "India's controversial ship-breaking industry will come under the scanner at a meeting being organised today by the International Labour Organisation to ensure implementation of safety and health guidelines. The two-day National Stakeholder Consultation, organised in collaboration with Gujarat Maritime Board and the Directorate General of Factory Advice Services and Labour Institutes, will be held at Alang in Gujarat, the world's largest shipbreaking yard." - LLOYD'S LIST, 10 November 2005 (No.59038) , p 5 'Establishing of a knowledge database to support ship recycling'. "Extracts from the paper "Establishment of a knowledge database to support ship recycling", presented at the Royal Institution of Naval Architects' international conference, Recycling of Ships and other Marine Structures, held on May 4-5, 2005, in London" - THE NAVAL ARCHITECT, November 2005, pp 16-23 SOKRATIS DIMAKOPOULOS, 'The IMO's work on ship recycling' - IMO NEWS, 2005 (No.2) , pp 18-20 'Ship recycling - IMO guidelines'. "The IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling were adopted on 5 December 2003 by resolution A.962 (23)" - IMO NEWS, 2005 (No.2) , p 21 'Clemenceau cleared for Alang scrapping'. "Amidst allegations that the French government has hidden behind a technicality to get around the Basel Convention on environmental safety, the decommissioned warship Clemenceau is being towed to India, for eventual demolition at Alang, the world's largest ship scrapyard. The aged French aircraft carrier, which has been embroiled in a slew of legal battles to halt its sale for scrap because of the estimated 40 tonnes-50 tonnes of toxic material like asbestos it still carries on board, left the French naval port of Toulon for India yesterday under heavy security. The 262 m long vessel was taken under tow by the ITC tug Sumatras at 0900 hrs yesterday morning to begin its eight-week journey to the Shree Ram Vessel Scrap demolition yard at Alang." - LLOYD'S LIST, 3 January 2006 (No.50073) , p 3 'Alang ready to take on "hazardous" Clemenceau'. "The world's largest shipbreaking yard, at Alang on India's Gujarat coast said it is fully geared to demolish the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, provided the vessel is able to sail through the controversy surrounding it. "We have in place complete infrastructure for storage and disposal of hazardous waste in ships that come to Alang for breaking," said Gujarat Maritime Board chairman HK Dash." - LLOYD'S LIST, 5 January 2005 (No.59075) , p 4 'India court calls for bar on Clemenceau'. "An India Supreme Court panel has recommended that a French aircraft carrier bound for an Indian shipbreaking yard is not allowed to enter the country because of worries about toxic waste. The Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes said it was worried about the Clemenceau. "There is inconsistency in the information about the toxic waste," it said, adding the committee would review the matter in New Delhi on January 20 and see if there was more information on the amount and type of toxic matter in the vessel." - LLOYD'S LIST, 9 January 2006 (59077) , p 2 'Supreme Court to decide fate of warship Clemenceau'. "The fate of the asbestos-laden French warship Clemenceau , being towed from Toulon to Alang shipbreaking yard for demolition, will be decided by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee by January 20. "We do not as yet have sufficient information on the ship," said SCMC chairman Dr G Thyagarajan, speaking after the committee's deliberations at a suburban Mumbai hotel over the weekend." - LLOYD'S LIST, 10 January 2006 (No.59078) , p 3 'Build to scrap'. "Scrapping the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau has been another great PR opportunity for Greenpeace, for which it has assembled its most photogenic campaigners (see p4). And the usual Basel Convention arguments have been paraded once again, with plenty of supporting voices from the destination country, India. Forget the fact that Basel is a red herring, and invoking it in the cause of clean scrapping is a cynical manoeuvre that doesn't help the argument one bit. The fact is, ships like Clemenceau exist and have to be scrapped somewhere.

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What does it matter where, if you are concerned about the whole planet?" - FAIRPLAY, 12 January 2006 (Vol.356, No.6361) , p 2 'French carrier under fire over scrapping plans'. "The progress of the former aircraft carrier Clemenceau to the Alang breakers might be delayed by objections from both environmentalists and India's Supreme Court, Joseph Tharakan reports. Polluting ship demolition yards in India's Alang have once again drawn international flak, this time over the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, which is en route to the Indian beaches now that plans to scrap it have survived a couple of Paris court cases. The vessel now faces legal objections in India. It might be many months before the vessel, which languished at Toulon military harbour for almost seven years, will be allowed to proceed to Alang for dismantling." - FAIRPLAY, 12 January 2006 (Vol.356, No.6361) , pp 4-5 'Norway steams into asbestos row'. "A new asbestos crisis is about to land on the demolition beaches of Alang in the shape of giant cruiseship Norway. News of the sale for scrap of the cruise icon, thought to be laden with about 20 times the amount of asbestos aboard the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, comes as Egypt refused transit for the warship and environmental group Greenpeace is in India's Supreme Court attempting to get a ruling against France for its scrapping. The 1961 French-built, Bahamas-registered, 45,112 ldt Norway is being negotiated for sale by owner Star Cruises on 'as is, where is' basis at anchorage Bintu Gedung in Port Klang, Malaysia, with at least 1,250 tonnes of asbestos on board." - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 January 2006 (No.59081) , p 1 'Clemenceau barred from Egyptian waters'. "Egypt stepped into the gathering dispute over asbestos in the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau yesterday, refusing the right of transit through its territorial waters on the grounds that it lacked adequate documentation. Mohammed Sayyed Khalil, director of the Egyptian environmental agency, told French press agency AFP: "We have decided to forbid the Clemenceau to penetrate into Egyptian territorial waters while we wait for a document attesting that it is not transporting dangerous waste."" - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 January 2006 (No.59081) , p 1 'Asbestos concerns dominate sector' - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 January 2006 (No. 59,082) , p. 4 'Letter: Who should dispose of hazardous waste?'. "Sir, I write this letter in response to the events and commentary surrounding the French warship Clemenceau and the highly publicised battles that are being waged regarding the eventual disposal of hazardous materials on board this vessel. This discussion will focus, not on the Clemenceau itself, but upon the designation of this and other end-of-life ships as "hazardous waste" and the location for disposal of such waste. Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Ship Recycling Solutions" - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 January 2006 (No.59082) , p 12 'Price of decontaminating Norway was "too high" for Star Cruises'. "The likely cost of removing the estimated 2,000 tonnes of asbestos aboard the iconic cruiseship Norway apparently put paid to a deal to remove the substance before it was sold for scrapping on the demolition beaches of Alang. According to Global Ship Recycling Solutions, an affiliate company of GMS, based in Maryland, US, decontamination contract talks between it and owner Star Cruises foundered on the projected price." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 January 2006 (No.59083) , p 1 'Clememceau awaits Supreme Court ruling'. "The former French aircraft carrier Clemenceau was barred from entering India's 220 nautical mile exclusive economic zone until further notice, the country's press reported late yesterday. The ship's present owner, Ship Decommissioning Industry Corp, agreed to abide by the recommendation in an interim report of the Indian Supreme Court's committee on hazardous waste management in its reiteration of a previous court order." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 January 2006 (No.59083) , p 1 'Editorial: Wrestling with a pig in a poke'. "One should never, according to the Chinese proverb famously quoted by Dr Helmut Sohmen as a useful lesson to the shipping industry, wrestle with a pig. Because, as he reminds us, you can never win, as you end up very dirty, while the porcine combatant enjoys itself hugely. There is an element of pig wrestling in the present clashes between those wishing to send ships for dismantling in South Asia and the environmental activists who have sworn to disrupt these plans, whatever the consequences. They have nailed their colours firmly to the Basel Convention, in that this gives them by far the most scope for their low-level lawlessness. Brandishing this convention, which was never designed to cover the demolition or recycling of ships, the activists are determined, as they always are, to persuade more governments, in addition to those who have sadly surrendered, that their prescription is the only acceptable solution." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 January 2006 (No.59083) , p 7

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'French delegation faces grilling over asbestos warship'. "The French government will today try to regain the advantage in the battle over the decontamination of the de- commissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau when it presents its case to the Indian Supreme Court committee dealing with hazardous waste management. The key questions the French delegation to the hearing will face are exactly how much asbestos remains on the vessel and what degree of danger it represents for Indian shipyard workers." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 January 2006 (No.59086) , p 3 'Clemenceau row could speed global accord'. "Uncertainty over the status of the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau could inject new impetus into stalled diplomatic efforts to bring legal and commercial certainty on which global norms should apply for ships with hazardous waste destined for scrapping. "With thousands of ships expected to become obsolete over the coming few years it is vital the international community finalises its work on an international legal regime for ship scrapping," said Sachiko Kuwabara, executive secretary of the Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 January 2006 (No.59086) , p 7 'New twist to Clemenceau row as Chirac is urged to order vessel home'. "French environmental organisations have urged President Jacques Chirac to intervene in the row over the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau by ordering the vessel to return to France. In a surprise development, a six-member delegation, which included representatives of Greenpeace and the international human rights federation FIDH, met members of Mr Chirac's private office at the Elysée Palace." - LLOYD'S LIST, 23 January 2006 (No.59087) , p 3 'New impetus for coordinated approach to ship recycling: legally binding instrument'. "A Joint Working Group on ship scrapping established by the IMO, the ILO and the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal concluded its second meeting on 15 December 2005" - OIL SPILL INTELIGENCE REPORT, 5 January 2006 (Vol.29, No.2) , pp 1-2 'Départ du Clemenceau pour l'Inde' - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 6 January 2006 (Nos.4489-4490) , p 18 'Dutch seek new tender to scrap problem ships'. "The Dutch ministries of transport and environment have again invited tenders for the scrapping of the two problem vessels that have been berthed in Amsterdam for years. The Sandrien was detained by the Dutch government in the spirit of the Basel ban because of fears that it was to be beached in Alang without having had asbestos and other toxic waste cleaned first." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 January 2006 (No.59089) , p 3 'Egypt gives Clemenceau canal clearance'. "The decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau was transiting the Suez Canal in special convoy yesterday but still without knowing if it would be given access to the Indian shipbreaking yard which is its final destination. The Clemenceau began its journey through the canal towards midnight on Sunday after an Egyptian government-appointed inspection team concluded that it presented no threat to the environment, despite the presence of disputed quantities of asbestos aboard." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 January 2006 (No.59089) , p 7 'Letter: Who's to blame for this mess?'. "Sir: I write in response to stories about the aircraft carrier Clemenceau and the highly publicised fight over disposal of hazardous materials when it is scrapped ('Build to scrap', Fairplay, 12 January). Let us focus not on Clemenceau but on the designation of this and other end-of-life ships as hazardous waste and where to dispose of waste. The recycling industry has been criticised in recent years for environmental and occupational practices in nations that do not meet Western standards .occupational practices in nations that do not meet Western standards. .Yours, etc, Ted Higson, ConsultantGlobal Ship Recycling Solutions, Maryland, US " - FAIRPLAY, 26 January 200 (Vol.356, No.6363) , p 13 'Letter; Follow the money on scrapping'. "SIR: Fairplay takes a bizarre position in its editorial on the scrapping of Clemenceau when it proposes to make shipyards responsible for clean dismantling. You do not seem to know that classification societies, not yards, decide on the materials used; that materials now considered problematic were once considered perfectly OK; that yards have not been very profitable in recent decades because of structural overcapacity; and that India runs a scrapping industry built on the back of danger to workers' health, even though it has the capacity to explode nuclear devices and send satellites into space. Those who made money with the ship through its life need to pay for its scrapping. They are called shipowners, a group not known to be filling the ranks of the impoverished in this world. Yours etc, Ronald Vopel, Brussels " - FAIRPLAY, 26 January 200 (Vol.356, No.6363) , p 13

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'Clemenceau waste to go back to France'. "France has proposed repatriating asbestos-contaminated waste recovered from the planned demolition of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau in the Alang shipbreaking centre in Gujarat, India. French Defence Ministry spokesman Jean-François Bureau revealed yesterday that the French ambassador in New Delhi had told the Indian Supreme Court monitoring committee on hazardous waste that France was ready to take back the waste if it received a request to this effect from the Indian authorities." - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 January 2006 (No.59092) , p 6 'Ecodock project's fate set to be revealed this week'. "The fate of Ecodock, branded as the first "zero pollution" dismantling yard, is expected to be finally revealed on Saturday. Idea-Ecoline, a holding company specialising in environmentally-friendly initiatives, is likely to announce that it has taken over Ecodock." - LLOYD'S LIST, 31 January 2006 (No. 59093) , p. 5 'Demolition : A ship's certain fate'. "The Clemenceau scrapping project promotes safety and quality in recycling and should herald a new way ahead, argues the head of the organisation responsible" - LLOYD'S LIST, 31 January 2006 (No. 59093) , p. 7 'Indian unions unite against toxic ship Clemenceau'. "Three large trade unions in India said yesterday that they would take action to stop a decommissioned French warship from entering an Indian shipbreaking yard, unless it is cleared of toxic waste on board, AP reports. Environmental activists say Clemenceau holds hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste, including 500 tonnes of asbestos." - LLOYD'S LIST, 3 February 2006 (No.59096) , p 3 'Letter: IMO ship recycling legislation'. "Sir: With reference to articles on ship recycling and the IMO (Fairplay and Solutions, 12 January), recycling has been at the forefront of the IMO agenda, with an objective to address concerns over environmental safety, health and welfare matters in by minimizing risks in the most effective, efficient and sustainable way. IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling were developed by the Marine Environment Protection Committee, then adopted by the Assembly in 2003 as resolution A.962(23). Last year, the MEPC developed amendments to strengthen the guidelines. The MEPC has also issued circulars with practical advice that can help considerably in implementing the rules. Yours etc, Jo Espinoza Ferrey Head of Policy Planning, IMO " - FAIRPLAY, 2 February 2006 (Vol.356, No.6364) , p 15 'Letter: Don't put Clemenceau and Norway in same category'. "SIR, I write in response to the continuing attention by the media and non-governmental organisations on efforts to recycle the Clemenceau and the SS Norway. These ships are being lumped into a single category of "what is wrong with ship recycling". Further inspection, however, shows a significant difference in the efforts of the two ownership groups to engage in responsible ship recycling for their respective vessels. Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Ship Recycling, Solutions, LLC, United States" - LLOYD'S LIST, 8 February 2006 (No.59099) , p 18 'Indian court calls for new evidence on Clemenceau'. "India's Supreme Court has dismissed the expert committee set up to examine shipbreaking issues relating to the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, and called for the formation of a new panel. The Indian judges criticised the court's Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes after it submitted diametrically opposite viewpoints in two separate reports last week on whether the decommissioned carrier should be allowed into India." - LLOYD'S LIST, 14 February 2006 (No.59103) , p 3 'Letter: Better facilities would make scrapping safer'. "Sir, Ted Higson wonders in his letter (February 8) why environmental groups make such a fuss about the scrapping of the Clemenceau in India and not of the Norway. In his opinion, the French government has made sure that the Clemenceau will be recycled in a responsible manner, while this may not happen with the Norway. Menso de Jong" - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 February 2006 (No.59104) , p 7 'Letter: Cash purchasers can exert green pressure'. "Sir, I write in response to Briac Beilvert's letter (Lloyd's List February 3), in which cash buyers are highlighted as playing a negligent role in responsible ship recycling. Cash buyers currently function as market facilitators, supplying the service of purchasing ships from owners and then selling the ships to eventual shipyards for recycling. Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Marketing Systems, Inc (GMS), Global Ship Recycling Solutions, LLC" - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 February 2006 (No.59104) , p 7 'Le Clemenceau pourra-t-il entrer en Inde?' - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 27 January 2006 (No.4493) , p 14

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'Chirac orders Clemenceau to return to French waters'. "French president Jacques Chirac yesterday brought to an end the international legal imbroglio over the planned demolition of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau in India by ordering the vessel to be brought back to France. His decision came minutes after a ruling from the French council of state, the country's supreme legislative body, that the vessel's transfer to India should be suspended because they believe there are serious grounds for doubting the legality of the decisions authorising it." - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 February 2006 (No.59105) , p 1 'Bangladesh bans asbestos ship Norway as Clemenceau repercussions hit India'. "The Bangladeshi government yesterday cited health and safety grounds for blocking a $12m contract signed by a local shipbreaker for the demolition of the 45-year-old cruiseship Norway. The decision at an emergency ministerial meeting coincided with that of French president Jacques Chirac to bring the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau back to France rather than persist with efforts to have it demolished in India." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 February 2006 (No.59106) , p 3 'Editorial: alarming side of a U-turn'. "There is a sort of irony in the headlines. On the one hand we have the news that Crédit Suisse is making final plans to join its numerous financial services compatriots in outsourcing a thousand or so jobs to India, profiting from the cheap and available brain power in the sub-continent. This can be easily juxtaposed with the about-turn by President Jacques Chirac, who has intervened to recall the redundant aircraft carrier Clemenceau to France from somewhere off the Arabian peninsula." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 February 2006 (No.59106) , p 7 'Clemenceau fell foul of political correctness'. "France's premier maritime body, the Institut Francais de la Mer, has claimed that France's plans to scrap the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau in India fell victim to "political correctness". In an angrily worded communiqué published just five days after President Jacques Chirac's decision to order the Clemenceau back to its home country, it attacks the media for having failed to question the positions of Greenpeace and other environmental organisations opposed to the project." - LLOYD'S LIST, 22 February 2006 (No.59109) , p 14 'No mercy for Clemenceau'. "It's a bad sign when politicians get involved, as DP World has discovered (see above). Now the French aircraft carrier Clémenceau is on its way back to Europe after a storm of protest persuaded France's President Chirac to stick his oar in (see p4). This industry has plenty of unfortunate experiences of panicked government interference. With Jacques Chirac getting involved, there is the prospect of a lengthy process of negotiation being knocked off course by the heavy action of a heavyweight politician. Politicians like to demand radical, fast action. But hurried law is almost always bad law, and European governments have bad form in this regard. The obvious route, which will be tempting indeed for the politicos with half an eye on an intolerant electorate, will be to implement the Basel Convention. That would be to twist Basel and the scrapping industry both out of shape. Ships are not factories or cars, and Basel was not drafted with ships in mind. " - FAIRPLAY, 23 February 2006 (Vol.356, No.6367) , p 2 'Political fallout threatens ship recycling treaty'. "Public pressure arising from the controversy over two high-profile ships for scrapping is threatening the IMO's plans to agree an international treaty on recycling. Last week, Bangladesh banned the scrapping of the cruise ship Norway in its territory after the Star Cruises vessel was reportedly bought for demolition by a Chittagong breaker for $12M. Dhaka's decision came only a day after President Jacques Chirac (pictured) ordered the ageing French aircraft carrier Clémenceau back to France following an increasingly embarrassing campaign conducted by environmentalists. Both moves have been celebrated as victories for the green lobby, which publicised fears that both vessels were laden with dangerous materials such as asbestos. " - FAIRPLAY, 23 February 2006 (Vol.356, No.6367) , p 5 'Anxiety grows over fallout from Clemenceau'. "Fallout from the decisions on the Clemenceau and Norway a fortnight ago have started to filter through in the past week, with the prognosis bleak for demolition markets. Leading US cash buyer GMS warned that neither India nor Bangladesh would be the same again. Under pressure from environmental campaigners, French President Jacques Chirac had ordered the Clemenceau back to France." - LLOYD'S LIST, 27 February 2006 (No.59112) , p 4 'Why a little knowledge (about shipping) can be a very dangerous thing'. "Why are people so unutterably thick and completely ill-informed about maritime topics? How often, when watching some drivelling oaf eructing sheer nonsense about shipping, have you felt like hurling the television set into the garden, only to be restrained by wiser councils, namely your wife, pointing out the financial consequences of such a reaction?" - LLOYD'S LIST, 27 February 2006 (No.59112) , p 7

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'Greens put new nails in scrap coffin'. "Action by environmental groups such as Greenpeace is bringing the Indian subcontinent's scrap industry to its knees, with potentially devastating effects on the value of older ships. Recent high-profile attacks on the scrapping industry have spurred government authorities from France and Egypt to Bangladesh and India to unprecedented action. The result is several cancelled scrap sales and an apparent ban on scrap-bound ships transiting the Suez Canal." - TRADEWINDS, 24 February 2006 (Vol.17, No.8) , p 36 'Time to cough up?'. "Amid the wrangling about asbestos in ship scrapping, the human element has been rather forgotten. The shipping industry on one side and the green movement on the other have made their arguments, with varying degrees of common sense. But the important issue is getting lost (see p14). Asbestos is nasty stuff and it kills people. Simple enough? Yes. There are arguments for limited use of white asbestos, but there are synthetic alternatives that are just as cheap. Don't do it. Those nice people at the European Parliament have pretty much banned its use, which is the right thing to do." - FAIRPLAY, 2 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6368) , p 2 'Doubts surround Clemenceau deal'. "The final report by India's Supreme Court Monitoring Committee into hazardous wastes on the Clémenceau has revealed that two other countries previously refused to scrap the French aircraft carrier and there is still confusion about how much asbestos has been removed. There is also uncertainty about whether the carrier is still owned by France or by its putative buyer Shree Ram Vessel Scrap (SRVS). The committee has analysed all documents supplied by SRVS and various government agencies, including Gujarat Maritime Board." - FAIRPLAY, 2 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6368) , pp 10-11 'Shipping's most deadly time bomb'. "Asbestos in ships going for scrap is a deadly factor for workers, but the risks have been known for a long time. Insurers and owners face heavy liability - and are trying to wriggle away from culpability" - FAIRPLAY, 2 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6368) , pp 14-17 'Letter: What do NGOs really want?'. "SIR, I write in response to the attention in the media and among non-governmental organisations on efforts to recycle Clemenceau and Norway. These ships are being lumped into a single category of "what is wrong with ship recycling". Further inspection, however, shows a significant difference in the efforts of the two ownership groups to engage in respon-sible recycling. Clemenceau has received the most media attention. Various nations have bowed to politics by making irrational decisions, disallowing the carrier even to enter their territorial waters. But what steps have actually taken place, amid the controversy and confusion, to ensure that Clemenceau is recycled in a responsible manner? First, the French government performed at least some pre-cleaning work and removed significant amounts of asbestos. Questions remain as to the amount of asbestos remaining. Next, the ship was sold for recycling at Alang, with a reported additional involvement of an environmental engineering company that is to be involved in further remediation and disposal of hazardous materials at Alang. Yours etc, Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Ship Recycling Solutions Maryland, US" - FAIRPLAY, 16 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6370) , p 15 'Editorial: Through-life green-ness'. "This week sees the International Maritime Organization Marine Environmental Protection Committee in session. It is debating a range of issues which are of enormous importance to the maritime industry, because they will eventually affect the operation, and to a certain extent the construction, of virtually all ships. And in that these issues reflect the attitudes of our age to the environment, and to shipping, they are given added importance. Who, 10 years ago would have thought twice about the "recycling" of ships? Old ships were scrapped, dismantled, demolished or wrecked, in all those countries that could do it cheapest. A ship was sold to a demolition broker and was stricken from the corporate memory, while the latter was interested only in the light weight and non-ferrous content" - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 March 2006 (No.59127) , p 7 'Industry gives cautious boost to IMO ship recycling draft'. "Six industry organisations will take a common stance as a detailed reading on the first draft of a new International Maritime Organization convention on ship recycling gets under way today. In their view, a base document drafted by Norway provides "a solid foundation for a successful mandatory regime on ship recycling", including "pragmatic and realistic means" of ship disposal and improving an environmentally sound and safe work environment." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 March 2006 (No.59127) , p 14 'Plan "shockingly inadequate" says green advocates'. "Aircraft carriers such as the Clemenceau could be exported from Europe to the developing world for breaking every day if a new convention before the International Maritime Organization is approved, environmental groups have warned. The draft text on "environmentally sound recycling of ships", to be examined by the IMO next week, is "shockingly inadequate" and represents and seeks to legitimise

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regarded as illegal, the NGO platform on shipbreaking said yesterday." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 March 2006 (No.59127) , p 14 'IMO talks of urgency over ship recycling'. "Delicate relations between the International Maritime Organization and other bodies over ship recycling brought a low-key opening to yesterday's Marine Environment Protection Committee. With a draft Norwegian proposal for a new legally binding instrument on recycling on the table, secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos emphasised: "The IMO will continue its close co-operation with the International Labour Organisation and the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention so as not only to serve the purpose of this joint effort in the best interests of all the sides concerned but also in order to avoid duplication."" - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 March 2006 (No.59128) , p. 3 'Breaking up is hard to do'. "90 per cent of ship scrapping and recycling is done on Asian beaches with scant regard for the environment. What can be done to clean-up this mess before the tide of public opinion turns against the industry" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER, March 2006, pp 21-23 'No deal on "woeful" scrapping rules'. "Battle lines are being drawn again this week at the IMO over the details of a new ship scrapping regime. On the table at the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) is the first draft of what will probably develop into legally binding ship recycling rules. But environmental groups are already labelling the working draft "woefully inadequate" and shipowners' groups are jostling for position over details. After a decision by the IMO's ruling assembly late last year, the MEPC has been told to develop rules by the end of 2008 - a deadline given further political impetus by the recent high-profile case of the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau. IMO secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos pointedly reminded delegates that the issue has now "become a growing concern, not only from the environmental, but also from the occupational health and safety points of view"." - FAIRPLAY, 23 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6371) , p 8 'Response to mandatory scrapping rules positive'. "A draft convention by Norway setting out a path for a mandatory global ship-recycling regime met with generally broad approval at this week's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting. The issue has been on the industry's agenda for several years but the IMO is aiming to complete the instrument for adoption in 2009. But despite the progress, delegates are far from reaching consensus on the fine print of certain key matters, including "prior informed consent". Under the Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of waste, the receiving countries must give their consent in advance. But owners, flag states and environmental groups remain divided over whether it applies to ships." - TRADEWINDS, 24 March 2006 (Vol.17, No.12) , p 6 'Rina issues first "green passport"'. "The first-ever "green passport" has been awarded to an Italian ship as the recycling issue was debated at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) this week. Italian classification society Rina has isued the green passport to Mediterranea di Navigazione's 25,000-dwt IMO II chemical products tanker newbuilding Ottomana (built 2006). The idea is to document all hazardous material built into a ship, hopefully leading to environmentally friendly repair and then scrapping at the end of its life." - TRADEWINDS, 24 March 2006 (Vol.17, No.12) , p 6 'Ex-Clememceau: Technopure contre-attaque' - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 24 March 2006 (No.4501) , p 4 'Putting the brakes on breaking'. "Mike Gerber reports on the latest developments in the drive to improve the health and safety of workers scrapping ships" - TELEGRAPH, March 2006 (Vol.39, No.3) , pp 24-25 'Shipbreaking dying in Alang despite safeguards'. "Shipbreaking has been a casualty of the most recent shipping boom and attacks from environmetalists and the media. Shirish Nadkarni explores Alang, which claims it has now got its act together" - LLOYD'S LIST MARITIME ASIA, Spring 2006, pp 15-17 'Letter: Alang on death row?'. "SIR: After several years of industry criticism calling for clean ship recycling, Greenpeace, Basel Action Network and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions made a formal declaration calling for a ban of all ship recycling in India on 9 July 2005, resulting in an implicit goal of outright death to the industry at Alang. Initially, this media campaign highlighted negative aspects of the industry and actually resulted in positive movements for change, climaxing in French President Jacques Chirac's call for the Clémenceau's return to France. However, it appears that the positive advancements may never have the opportunity to bear fruit. In recent years, more than 30 ship recycling yards in Alang have become ISO certified and the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has established a dedicated hazardous waste reception facility nearby, together with extensive worker education and

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training programmes as well as physical health facilities and programmes. These efforts have greatly reduced worker accidents. Several additional programmes are planned, yet media outlets still regularly report the wholly unsubstantiated "death per day" figures to further a public opinion agenda. Yours etc, Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Ship Recycling Solutions, Maryland, US" - FAIRPLAY, 30 March 2006 (Vol.356, No.6372) , p 13 'Letter: Watch your language'. "Sir , I am writing to comment on the recent article entitled "Plan shockingly inadequate say green advocates" (Lloyd's List, March 20), which contains the general NGO response to the International Maritime Organization Convention's draft on ship recycling guidelines. In this article, the author uses language and quotes that give the reader a false impression of the truth. In one instance, the author mentions shipowners and then inexplicably attaches "(polluters)" in the description as if the terms are synonymous. Also in the article, in reference to the IMO convention plan, is the quote ". what the world has already agreed is a criminal activity", as if this too is a statement no longer open to debate. Language is a powerful tool, easily manipulated to influence the reader to accept, as fact, statements that are either false or misleading. Ted Higson, Consultant, Global Ship Recycling Solutions, LLC, Maryland, US" - LLOYD'S LIST, 6 April 2006 (No.59140) , p 6 'Sita lines up bid to demolish aircraft carrier Clemenceau' - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 April 2006 (No.59145) , p 18 'Intertanko urges more input from demolition yards'. "The International Maritime Organization is making real progress on the issue of ship recycling, but more input is needed from the demolition yards themselves, says Intertanko. Last month, the IMO discussed at length the new draft of the Convention on Ship Recycling that could become a mandatory instrument to guide this sector of the industry. The London group agreed that the convention will need to develop several sets of guidelines, including a guide on developing hazardous material inventories." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 April 2006 (No.59146) , p 11 'France eye Le Havre floating dock for demolition use'. "The French government has asked the port of Le Havre to defer the planned sale of its floating dock with a view to its possible use in the creation of a new ship demolition facility in France. The port put the dock up for sale in December after its only shiprepair company, Soreni, went into liquidation in April last year." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 April 2006 (No.59148) , p 5 'Breakers circling old cruiser again'. "Breakers in India are said to have been inspecting a famous 1961-built cruiseship. Scrappers in India are again showing interest in the legendary 1961-built, 76,000-gt cruiseship Norway. Reports out of Alang indicate that several breakers have once again been inspecting the ship, which has been keeping a low profile off Port Klang in Malaysia since August last year, lately under the name Blue Lady ." - TRADEWINDS, 21 April 2006 (Vol.17, No.16) , p 21 'Brussels ready to act alone on recycling'. "The European Commission is prepared to act on ship recycling in advance of the development of rules agreed through the International Maritime Organization. Stavros Dimas, member of the European Commission responsible for recycling of ships, told a European Parliament open hearing yesterday that ship recycling was one of the top priorities on the commission's agenda." - LLOYD'S LIST, 26 April 2006 (No.59152) , p 1 'Coalition brands Commission proposals to revive European shipbreaking as "unrealistic"'. "A coalition of industry bodies has denounced European Commission plans to revive Europe's shipbreaking industry as totally unrealistic. Talk of forcing owners to dismantle in Europe shows that Brussels is not familiar with how the 'recycling' industry operates, the inter-industry working group on ship recycling said. "There is a total 'disconnect' between the proposals and the way things work," said Chris Horrocks who, via the working group, represents shipowners, unions, classification societies and the oil industry." - LLOYD'S LIST, 27 April 2006 (No.59153) , p 3 'Polembros sail into "green" fury over Alfaship scrapping deal'. "Greek shipowner Polembros was yesterday forced to defend its decision to send a single-hull tanker to a Bangladeshi breakers' yard after finding itself the next target in the campaign by environmentalists to put an end to what they claim is an illegal trade. The Piraeus-based operator of the 1979-built Alfaship, 87,368 dwt, said it had become the victim of a wave of hysterical media coverage in Bangladesh and its breaking contract contained "nothing unusual or odd"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 May 2006 (No.59157) , p 1 'Letter: Global action key to solving problem of recycling'. "SIR, Justin Stares's report of the Brussels hearing on ship recycling (Lloyd's List, April 27) captures the atmosphere of the discussion but fails to convey the essential point made by all speakers - that there has to be an international solution to a global problem. Chris Horrocks, Chairman, Industry Working Group, on Ship Recycling" - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 May 2006 (No.59157) , p 5

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'EU stagger into ship scrap debate'. "New plans to impose a 'European solution' to the problems of international ship scrapping have been labelled 'unachievable' and 'unrealistic' by shipping industry bodies. A surprise announcement last week by the European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas aired new EC plans to revive and potentially subsidise a European shipbreaking industry. The plans would also apply the workings of the disputed Basel Convention and move ahead on international talks to implement the EU's own mandatory green recycling. After years of careful diplomatic language and painstaking progress on the issue within international forums, including the IMO, Dimas's announcement was received with incredulity by the shipping industry. "I think the general consensus was that he was long on ideals but short on practicalities," a spokesman from the International Chamber of Shipping told Fairplay. Dimas issued his vision at a European parliamentary hearing in Brussels last week. Addressing politicians, industry representatives and officials with environmental non-government organisations, Dimas gave his personal commitment to implement a balanced new EU strategy for ship dismantling." - FAIRPLAY , 4 May 2006 (Vol.357, No.6377) , p 9 'Last word: Green relief'. "The US Navy is taking environmentally friendly ship recycling to a different level, with plans for decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany to become the world's largest ship to be intentionally sunk as an artificial reef. From May 17 the 888 ft ship's new station will be 212 ft beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off Pensacola." - LLOYD'S LIST, 8 May 2006 (No.59160) , p 12 'Alang prepares to scrap legendary cruiseship'. "Indian shipbreakers have scored a victory in their quest to acquire the 76,000-gt cruiseship Blue Lady (built 1961, ex- Norway ). Industry sources in Alang tell TradeWinds that the famous luxury liner has been purchased by a consortium of two shipbreaking companies. The vessel is reportedly being prepared for its final voyage under tow from its layup anchorage in Port Klang in Malaysia and already has an Indian delivery crew onboard. It is set to reach Alang at the end of this month." - TRADEWINDS, 5 May 2006 (Vol.17, No.18) , p 5 'Greenpeace rallies its troops as "toxic" cruiseship heads to India'. "International environmental organisation Greenpeace has expressed opposition to the entry into India of the cruiseship Norway, also known as the SS France and the Blue Lady. The giant cruiseship is headed from Pulau Carey, Malaysia, where it has been anchored for the past year, for the shipbreaking yard at Alang, on the Gujarat coast, where it is scheduled for demolition." - LLOYD'S LIST, 11 May 2006 (No.59163) , p 3 'Norway's sale to the scrapyards of Alang - is it a blessing or a curse?'. "Alang, the world's largest ship scrapyard, set on a 17 km stretch along the Gujarat seafront, is in the news again - and, yet again, for the wrong reasons. Less than three months after French President Jacques Chirac ordered the return home of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Le Clemenceau on February 19 on the grounds that its toxic content had not been properly assessed before its sale for scrap, another potentially dangerous vessel is on its way." - LLOYD'S LIST, 11 May 2006 (No.59163) , p 5 'France seeks solution as Clemenceau heads home'. "The former French aircraft carrier Clemenceau is expected to arrive in the port of Brest tomorrow, putting the French government under new pressure to find an acceptable solution for its demolition in France. The engineless vessel, which was ordered to return from India, where it was due for breaking, by French President Jacques Chirac on February 15, was being towed northwards off the French Atlantic coast yesterday and is expected off Brest early tomorrow morning." - LLOYD'S LIST, 16 May 2006 (No.59166) , p 3 'Clemenceau back home at Brest after 18,000-mile trip'. "France's ill-starred ex-aircraft carrier Clemenceau returned on time yesterday to the port of Brest where it was built more than 40 years ago. The vessel, now known officially as Q 790 and under tow, presented itself at the entrance to the port, as planned, shortly before 0730 hours and was at its berth by 1000 hours after an 18,000 mile journey virtually to India and back." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 May 2006 (No.59168) , p 3 'Editorial: A clean break'. "As the old carrier Clemenceau staggers back into Brest this week after its aborted trip to the sub-continent, French interests are talking about the establishment of a "clean" ship recycling facility for Europe. They might save themselves the trouble, leave the towline connected and haul the old ship off to Hartlepool where, if they were only allowed to get on with the job by greens and jobsworths, Able UK would soon render the carrier down into razor blades with perfect cleanliness." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 May 2006 (No.59168) , p 7

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'Call to revive shipbreaking as fears mount over Asia asbestos'. "Support is growing for the creation of a UK ship scrapping industry as a way of ending the "hypocrisy" of countries exporting potentially contaminated vessels to Asia. A British trade union official, Jim Marshall, said during a conference in London that countries which built ships had a duty to dismantle them. He said that the UK had at least three shipyards that could handle redundant ships responsibly - Able UK, Swan Hunter and Northwestern Shipbuilders - and that experts were advancing technology to counter asbestos problems." - LLOYD'S LIST, 19 May 2006 (No.59169) , p 7 'Demolition deadlock drags in Bangladesh'. "A demolition deadlock over Polembros Shipping's tanker Alfaship is continuing in Bangladesh, where the company insists that the vessel is clean of wastes and ready to be inspected before going to a breaking beach. But Greens continue to demand that the ship remain docked at the outer anchorage of Chittagong's port and not be allowed into the harbour, where they fear that its scrapping would become inevitable. The Bangladesh High Court upheld a writ filed by the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers' Association (BELA) requiring the government to prevent Alphaship from entering the shipbreaking yard for two months, pending a further hearing " - FAIRPLAY, 18 May 2006 (Vol.357, No.6379) , p 9 'Scrap fight puts cruise on the spot'. "More shots have been fired over in India over the Norway demolition saga. The row that has been brewing over the scrapping of one of the world's most famous cruiseships could have wide-ranging implications for the cruise industry. When launched 45 years ago by the wife of then French president Charles de Gaulle, the SS France (built 1961) was the ship that the world's rich and famous clamoured to travel on. A later career as the Caribbean cruiseship Norway was equally glamorous." - TRADEWINDS, 19 May 2006 (Vol.17, No.20) , p 6 'UK shipbreaking ambitions "wishful thinking", say leading owners'. "A spokesman for leading shipowners has poured cold water on the ambitions of government ministers, campaigners and a small number of industrialists to resurrect the shipbreaking industry on a significant scale in the UK or other countries in the European Union. Edmund Brookes, deputy director general of the Chamber of Shipping, which represents UK operators of some 18m gt, dismissed such calls as "wishful thinking"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 May 2006 (No.59172) , p 1 'Still more questions than answers in debate over green ship recycling'. "A shipbreaking industry revolution would pose enormous challenges - from controlling ownership of the vessels, to the location and manner in which vessels are cut up, to winning over insurers to cover trickier ocean transits. Partisans of far-reaching transformation, and businesses putting their faith in the free market, showed at a conference in London how much ammunition is available for each side to use in demolishing the other's case." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 May 2006 (No.59173) , p 3 'India clears Norway to dock at Alang'. "Unlike the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, the equally controversial cruiseship Norway is likely to be allowed to enter Indian waters, at least for a pre-beaching assessment of its asbestos content, before it is passed for demolition. A technical committee, set up by India's Supreme Court, has submitted a report in which it has recommended that the ship, sold by owners Star Cruises to Indian shipbreaker Regent Shipping, be permitted to dock at Alang, off the Gujarat coast." - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 May 2006 (No.58175) , p 3 'Editorial: Demolition derby'. "There are sinister signs on the ship "recycling" front which should not be ignored by the world's shipowners, suppliers of the raw material to a scrap steel industry. Heartened by their well publicised success over the Clemenceau fiasco, those insistent that redundant ships are "waste" and that the Basel Convention reigns supreme are closing in for the kill. The shipping industry needs to take in the realities." - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 May 2006 (No.58175) , p 5 'IMO authorities vs the unilateralists'. "The new topic of ship scrapping touches on the old topic of IMO rules and how they are implemented. International Maritime Organisation (IMO) boss Efthimios Mitropoulos mounted a staunch defence while in Denmark recently of his Albert Embankment organisation's record in getting the job done. The global safety regulator is not the ponderous beast many are keen to portray. Neither, because of its 166 members, does it settle for the lowest common denominator on policy, argues the secretary-general, slight in stature but able to punch above his weight when he wants to get his message across." - TRADEWINDS, 9 June 2006 (Vol.17, No.23) , p 2 'UK to set "positive example"'. "The UK government says it intends to set a positive example to the international shipping community, especially owners and operators of UK-flag vessels, by making sure that its own ships are recycled in accordance with environmentally sound standards. Recycling of the UK's naval and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels will only be allowed in an OECD country. Sales to new owners will be subject to them taking full

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responsibility that the same green-scrapping principles are followed." - TRADEWINDS, 9 June 2006 (Vol.17, No.23) , p 21 'NGO calls for more research into "stripping" ships of waste'. "Environmental pressure group Global NGO Platform on Shipbreaking has called for more research into the extent that ships can be stripped of hazardous materials prior to their being moved elsewhere for demolition. "It needs to be clarified," said the organisation's co-ordinator, Ingvild Jenssen. Opinions are divided over the issue. Owners claim they can only go so far in preparing ships. Global NGO's argument is that the market can dictate, depending on the price and demand for scrap, where steelwork is torched but not where toxic substances like cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and asbestos are removed." - TRADEWINDS, 9 June 2006 (Vol.17, No.23) , p 21 'Blue Lady set for inspection on arrival for scrapping at Alang'. "Star Cruises' giant cruiseship Blue Lady, formerly the Norway, is set to dock near Bhavnagar on India's Gujarat coast, about 55 km from the world's largest ship scrapyard at Alang. The controversial vessel, whose sale for demolition has been bitterly opposed by environmental organisation Greenpeace as it contains 900 tonnes of asbestos and other potentially carcinogenic materials, has been given permission by India's Supreme Court to dock at the port." - LLOYD'S LIST, 19 June 2006 (No.59189) , p 6 'Blue Lady's last resting place'. "Former Norwegian Cruise Liner flagship SS Norway has reached Gujarat. The 2,500-passenger ship, renamed Blue Lady, has been bought by Haryana Ship Demolition to be broken up at the Alang demolition yard. It has reached Pipavav port but has yet to obtain permission to be beached at Alang. It is therefore at an anchorage off Pipavav. There it will be inspected by authorities, including the officials of Gujarat Maritime Board, who are expected to send a report to the Supreme Court's technical committee. The ship will be broken up only if court permission is granted. The ship has been an irritation for its owners since a boiler explosion in Miami effectively ended its trading career. It spent a long time laid up in Bremerhaven while various groups tussled over the ship's valuable heritage and whether it was worth repairing. Since the decision was taken to scrap the 'classic' 1960s liner, it has become a cause célèbre among environmentalists." - FAIRPLAY, 6 July 2006 (Vol.357, No.6386) , p 36 'Star Cruises in fresh row over Norway'. "Star Cruises has denied misleading the authorities over its plans for the huge cruiseship Norway in a new controversy over the demolition of ships potentially blighted by carcinogenic material. Recently sold to an Indian shipbreaker and renamed Blue Lady, the ship is anchored off the Gujarat coast pending clearance by India for break-up. A Star Cruises spokesman has hit back strongly at allegations by the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, a coalition of human rights and environmental groups, that it withheld vital information from German authorities in seeking permission for its ship to depart from the port of Bremerhaven in May last year." - LLOYD'S LIST, 7 July 2006 (No.59203) , p 7 'Proposed ship recycling instrument makes progress'. "The IMO's MEPC considered the first draft of a proposed new international instrument on ship recycling when it met for its 54th session from 20-24 March. Other issues on the agenda included ballast water management and air pollution from ships. The committee also adopted a number of amendments to the Marpol Convention" - TANKER OPERATOR, May/June 2006 (Vol.5, No.4) , p 2 'More fighting over the scraps'. "Just a bare few months before the odyssey of the Clemenceau began in 2002, 13 ships of the American Ghost Fleet started a saga of their own. Formally known as the National Defense Reserve Fleet, the ships in this fleet are meant to be a reserve which, in times of need - military or commercial - can be pressed back into service" - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2006 (Vol.101, No.2) , pp 28-31 'Ship scrapping - ad hoc ventures and co-operation'. "Nowadays, being involved in ship dismantling activities is not an easy business. Besides the fact that this activity enjoy neither a good reputation nor a positive image, a result of the recent political, legal, economical and industrial developments is that the future of this industry has never been so uncertain as far as its way of functioning is concerned" - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2006 (Vol.101, No.2) , pp 32-35 'Shetland expands scrapping facilities ready for decommissioned rigs'. "Shetland's main scrapping facility is undergoing a major expansion to prepare itself for thousands of tonnes of material from decommissioned oil rigs arriving this summer. 60º North Recycling is spending £250,000 on the first phase of preparations for the biggest job the company has undertaken, which will involve handling up to 10 times the scrap it normally deals with." - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 July 2006 (No.59207) , p 16

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'Greens told "get your facts rights"'. "Industry is urging environmentalists to be less belligerent if they want owners' co-operation on the scrapping front. Environmental groups opposed to the scrapping of ships in India and other developing nations are stepping up their fight against shipping companies but industry sources say they need to get their facts straight and adopt a less confrontational manner if they expect to get any co-operation from shipowners." - TRADEWINDS, 14 July 2006 (Vol.17, No.28 28) 'Editorial: Shetlands gets its share'. "Good luck to the Shetlanders, who everyone knew would manage the decommissioning of the North Sea offshore industry just as cannily as they organised its development. Then, they showed that they were not simple folk who could be pushed around by the big oil company developers. In the intervening years they have showed how to invest their money wisely rather than squandering it on social security like the large country to the south of them." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 July 2006 (No.59209) , p 6 'Clemenceau back home after seven-month towage saga'. "After a towage operation of 16,000 nautical miles the tug Sable Cape, operated by International Towage Contractors of the Netherlands, has handed over the aircraft carrier Clemenceau to French navy tugs at the port of Brest. The arrival marked the end of a 135-day ocean tow that started on December 31 in Toulon behind the French tug Carengue." - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 July 2006 (No.59213) , p 16 'Asbestos tanker Otapan to leave Amsterdam at last'. "The controversial chemical tanker Otapan , berthed in the port of Amsterdam since 1999, is to begin its final journey tomorrow as the unwelcome 22,328 dwt visitor leaves for scrapping in Turkey. Formerly owned by the Mexican company Navimin - Compania Naviera Minera de Golfo - the Otapan found itself in the spotlight when its crew started ripping bagloads of lethal brown asbestos out of the ship in 2001." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 July 2006 (No.59214) , p 1 'Dutch pass "green" buck as Otopan is bound for Turkish yard'. "After nearly seven years berthed in the port of Amsterdam, the Otapan, a chemical tanker still containing lethal brown asbestos, is set to be unceremoniously towed from the Dutch port to be scrapped, perhaps significantly, in a non-European Union country, Turkey. With the interested parties extremely worried that the Otapan will turn into the next Clemenceau - the decommissioned French aircraft carrier equally blighted with asbestos - the vessel's exit from the Netherlands has been kept very quiet. Several departure dates have come and gone but it is now thought that this week will see the Otapan leave for Turkey." - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 July 2006 (No.59215) , p 7 'Green message hits demo deals'. "Scrapping-minded owners are feeling the squeeze of the green campaign. The spectre of environmental pressure continues to haunt the scrapping world, putting pressure on owners to distance themselves from vessel sales and comply with local rulings. This week, it emerged that Greek owner European Navigation's 29,995-dwt tanker Gudermes (built 1977) was sold "as is" in Fujairah for $363 per ldt. Broker reports speculate that the owner's decision to sell "as is" in the Middle East could have been influenced by the vessel appearing on environmental pressure group Greenpeace's hit list of ships that are due for demolition and about which it is asking for information. Talk is that the tanker will be resold to buyers in Pakistan but this has yet to be confirmed." - TRADEWINDS, 21 July 2006 (Vol.17, No.29) , p 7 'Pakistan back on scrap track'. "Pakistan has rejoined the demolition game and is offering tempting rates for owners in a bid to acquire tonnage but with strong tanker and bulker markets prevailing, pickings remain slim. Shipbroker Simpson, Spence Young reports that the Ukrainian-controlled, 44,750-dwt bulker Selecta (built 1978) was recently circulated for sale and received strong offers of above $360 per ldt from cash buyers in the country. But this appears not to have been enough to entice the seller, which is said to be in talks for a sale for further trading." - TRADEWINDS, 28 July 2006 (Vol.17, No.30) , p 17 'Greens see red over Blue Lady ruling'. "A French environmental organisation has blasted a decision by the Indian Supreme Court to allow the cruiseship Norway, now renamed Blue Lady, to be beached for demolition at the Alang shipbreaking yard. The court's technical committee has notified its decision to the Gujarat Maritime Board, according to Indian officials, although it has specified that 210 tonnes of asbestos and other toxic wastes must be disposed of safely." - LLOYD'S LIST, 3 August 2006 (No.59222) , p 3 'Turkey under pressure to bar asbestos ship Otapan'. "The Turkish government is being urged to bar the chemical tanker Otapan, currently heading for scrap, from entering its waters. The Dutch government and Mexican-owned vessel, which now looks destined to become the subject of another prolonged battle between environmentalists and

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scrappers, has been dubbed 'toxic' because it contains unknown amounts of lethal brown asbestos." - LLOYD'S LIST, 9 August 2006 (No.59226) , p 3 'French body raps ship scrap "arrogance"'. "France's premier maritime body, the Institut Français de la Mer, has warned France and its European partners against treating existing shipbreakers in developing countries with "arrogance and egotism" in trying to build a ship demolition industry of their own. The IFM, which groups all France's major maritime professions, said that France and other European countries were right to try to establish their own shipbreaking sector but that, in so doing, it was primordial that they recognise the importance and efficiency of those who were already engaged in the business." - LLOYD'S LIST, 10 August 2006 (No.59227) , p 3 'Editorial: The final mile'. "To the indescribable rage of the environmental activists who have waxed lyrical about the toxic substance said to be contained in its ancient hull, the old cruiseship Blue Lady , formerly Norway , will soon be at Alang for demolition. Unlike the fiasco of the Clemenceau , there will be no further ridiculous changes of orders for a ship which has become something of a symbol for the activists, who would like to prevent all international ship sales, for what we are now urged to define as "recycling"." - LLOYD'S LIST, 14 August 2006 (No.59229) , p 6 'Norway gives new hope to Alang'. "Norwegian cruise liner Blue Lady, the former SS Norway, has breathed fresh life into India's troubled shipbreaking industry. After the technical committee appointed by India's Supreme Court cleared the beaching of the liner for demolition at Alang with a number of conditions, hundreds of yard workers are looking forward to making some solid earnings. After holding up the 76,049gt vessel off Pipavav coast in Gujarat, the committee gave a go-ahead to Gujarat Maritime Board on condition that the disposable hazardous wastes generated while breaking the ship would be disposed of in a safe manner. Pravin Nagarsheth, president of Indian shipbreakers' association, said the breaker had accepted the fact that the vessel carried around 1,200 tonnes of asbestos and other toxic materials. "India is competent to handle asbestos. The breaker will however have to spend a fortune to remove it and dispose of it safely," he said." - FAIRPLAY, 10 August 2006 (Vol.357, No.6391) , p 8 'Chemical tanker Otapan faces scrapping ban in Turkey'. "The controversial chemical tanker Otapan faces being shut out when it attempts to berth at the Simsekler yard at Aliaga in Turkey, according to local media reports. The Milliyet newspaper cited an environment ministry statement to the effect that the Turkish foreign ministry had sought assurances from the Dutch government that no more than one tonne of asbestos was used in the construction of the Otopan before allowing it to dock." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 August 2006 (No.59233) , p 3 'Court puts Blue Lady's fate on hold'. "India's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the controversial Norwegian cruise liner Blue Lady, formerly the Norway, should not be dismantled without express permission of the bench. Barely two days after the 46,000 dwt cruiseship beached for demolition off the world's largest shipbreaking yard at Alang a challenge to its entry came up in the apex court from the Non-Government Organisations' Global Platform on Shipbreaking." - LLOYD'S LIST, 18 August 2006 (No.59233) , p 3 'Blue Lady looks set to make final curtain call'. "It would appear that the Norwegian cruiseship Blue Lady (formerly the SS Norway ) simply cannot be kept out of the headlines. In the first week of August, a technical committee of the Gujarat Maritime Board and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board had concluded that the giant vessel, sold for scrap at Alang by Malaysia's Star Cruises to Haryana Shipbreakers, could be recycled on the grounds that it contained toxic and hazardous material within permissible limits. However, environmentalists who had fought the Blue Lady's sale for scrap on the grounds that it had more than 900 tonnes of potentially carcinogenic material on board, went to the Supreme Court again, contending that no official order for the ship's breaking had been passed." - LLOYD'S LIST, 21 August 2006 (No.59234) , p 4 'Dutch minister tackles asbestos stand-off'. "Dutch state secretary for the environment, Pieter van Geel, flew out to Turkey yesterday in a bid to relieve mounting diplomatic pressure stemming from the latest asbestos ship scrapping controversy. Problems first began to emerge for the Dutch government on Friday when it was forced to admit that estimates concerning the amount of asbestos onboard the controversial ship, Otapan, were totally inaccurate." - LLOYD'S LIST, 29 August 2006 (No.59239) , p 1 '"One in six at risk of cancer" at Alang'. "Almost one in every six workers at the world's largest shipbreaking yard at Alang could be suffering from an early stage of asbestosis and are at serious risk of contracting lung cancer, according to an expert committee set up by India's Supreme Court. In a disturbing 200-page report submitted to the court, the 12-member panel of technical experts said that almost 16 per cent of the workforce that handles asbestos

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could be suffering from the disease, an irreversible lung condition that could lead to lung cancer." - LLOYD'S LIST, 8 September 2006 (No.59247) , p 1 'Breakers tighten grip on "Norway"'. "The battle between Indian shipbreakers and environmental groups over the fate of the grand old 76,000-gt Norway (built 1961), now named Blue Lady , has edged closer to a final conclusion. Victory is in the grasp of the Indian breakers. The carcass of the former transatlantic liner turned Caribbean cruiseship was finally hauled onto Plot V1 at Alang's beach." - TRADEWINDS, 25 August 2006 (Vol.17, No.34) , p 2 'Ship scrapping in Turkey seen in a European context' - BIMCO BULLETIN, August 2006 (Vol.101, No.4) , pp 28-32 'Opinion: Record order tally has pros and cons'. "Unless the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) gets a move on, then owners looking to scrap ships will face either the wrath of environmentalists or, perhaps even more worryingly, the exacting and impractical standards set by the Basel Convention. Lloyd's Register has come out and said scrapping under Basel conditions in Europe could cost the industry as much as $90bn." - TRADEWINDS, 22 September 2006 (Vol.17, No.38) , p 2 'Lloyd's warns of $90bn scrap bill'. "Leading classification society Lloyd's Register is warning that the shipping industry faces a whopping $90bn bill to scrap the world fleet unless something can be done to solve the safety and environmental crisis at Asia's scrap sites. The London-based societies recycling expert Robert Townsend has estimated this is what it will cost to dismantle the fleet if the European Union (EU) goes ahead and forces through legislation as was recently threatened by environment commissioner Stavros Dimas that will result in mandatory scrapping in Europe." - TRADEWINDS, 22 September 2006 (Vol.17, No.38) , p 6 'Nations to take on Basel Convention'. "A Japanese sponsored seminar on ship scrapping claims that the major players in the market have come to a consensus on the adoption of a mandatory convention on ship scrapping. Interests as diverse as India, China, the UK, Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to together push for a mandatory convention at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to block regional legislation based on near-impossible standards outlined under the Basel Convention being applied to shipping." - TRADEWINDS, 22 September 2006 (Vol.17, No.38) , p 6 'Otopan returns to the Netherlands as diplomatic talks break down'. "Dutch diplomatic efforts to resolve the fate of the scrap-bound chemical tanker Otapan have again failed, resulting in the order to return the controversial vessel to the Netherlands. For several weeks, the Dutch ministry of the environment, VROM, has been involved in top-level diplomatic talks trying to get another country to accept the vessel. The 22,328 dwt Otapan left Amsterdam after being berthed in the Dutch port since 1999, bound for scrapping at the Simsekler yard in Aliaga." - LLOYD'S LIST, 26 September 2006 (No.59259) , p 3 'Responsible ship recycling'. "The UK has the capability to recycle its own ships but would this be cost-effective?" - SHIPPING WORLD AND SHIPBUILDER, September 2006 (Vol.207, No.4226) , pp 93-94 'Intertanko unveils interim blueprint for ship scrapping'. "Independent tanker owners' association Intertanko has proposed "interim measures" for shipbreaking, designed to reduce environmental damage in southern Asia prior to implementation of an IMO convention." - LLOYD'S LIST, 28 September 2006 (No.59261) , p 3 'Environmental Law & Regulation Conference'. "A report on the Environmental Law & Regulation in the Shipping Industry Conference (Lloyd's Maritime Academy) which took place in London under the chairmanship of Ian Adams (Secretary General, International Bunker Industry Association)" - SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL, 2006 (Vol.6, No.1) , pp 38-42 'GL confirms hazardous material list to cope with new recycle laws'. "Classification society Germanischer Lloyd will from today certify inventory lists for hazardous materials in vessels. "We are referring to the 2003 IMO guidelines on ship recycling as well as the development and current discussion that will lead to strict regulations for recycling in the near future," Henning Gramann, specialist for ship recycling with Germanischer Lloyd, announced at the SMM in Hamburg." - LLOYD'S LIST, 29 September 2006 (No.59262) , p 10 'Lookout: Dust to dust'. "India finally acts on asbestos - better late than never. A health and safety regime for Indian ship breaking will be set up in December. About time, too - the scrapyards are factories of death. If they are forced

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to close because of the regulatory burden, we should not lament" - FAIRPLAY, 28 September 2006 (Vol.358, No.6398) , pp 1-2 'India acts after health warning'. "India's Supreme Court is to set up a strict regulatory regime for the country's crumbling ship breaking industry. The court is due to meet on 4 December, after a court-appointed panel found that one in six yard workers at Alang, once the world's largest ship demolition yard, suffers from early asbestosis, owing to poor handling and disposal of asbestos and other toxic materials stripped from junk ships." - FAIRPLAY, 28 September 2006 (Vol.358, No.6398) , p 12 'Netherlands counts cost of Otopan scrapping fiasco'. "The Dutch government has revealed that scrapping and towing the chemical tanker Otapan will cost around Euros 2m ($2.4m) and industry speculation suggests that it has little chance of recouping the costs. Otapan left Amsterdam after being berthed in the port since 1999, bound for scrapping at the Simsekler yard at Aliaga in Turkey." - LLOYD'S LIST, 11 October 2006 (No.59270) , p 3 'Last word: Return voyage'. "Perhaps absence does make the heart grow fonder. When the chemical tanker Otapan left Amsterdam in July, the port thought it would never see the vessel again as it began a final journey to the scrapyard. But when scandal hit and the Turkish government refused permission for it to be scrapped, the Otapan was left going to and fro off the Greek island of Lesbos." - LLOYD'S LIST, 13 October 2006 (No.59272) , p 12 'Otapan scrapping saga returns to Amsterdam'. "After many weeks in the Mediterranean, the chemical tanker at the heart of an asbestos-scrapping scandal, the Otapan, is back in Amsterdam. Greenpeace placed a banner on the Otapan, which is now partly wrapped in plastic, urging the Dutch state secretary for the environment, Pieter van Geel, to clean the ship up. Greenpeace spokeswoman Loes Visser said it was "ridiculous" that after three months on the open sea, the ship should now be coated in plastic on the orders of the ministry of environment inspectorate." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 October 2006 (No.59274) , p 12 'NGOs slam IMO breaking policy'. "A coalition of labour, human rights, and environmental NGOs has condemned current ship breaking practice as "immoral" and criticised a meeting of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting in London last week. "The meeting has been dominated by shipping industry interests and the national shipping powers - Norway, US, Germany, Japan and Greece. Meanwhile, the interests of other stakeholders, including the International Labour Organization (ILO), trade unions, the United Nation's Basel Convention, shipyard workers, green ship recyclers, and environmental and human rights organizations, have been ignored or rejected," said a statement signed by Greenpeace, Basel Action Network and an NGO platform on ship breaking." - FAIRPLAY, 19 October 2006 (Vol.358, No.6401) , p 9 'A dirty shipping business'. "Rotterdam has so far avoided becoming involved in the controversy over toxic ships and Amsterdam perhaps now regrets not having a similarly rigorous policy on 'dirty ships. Unlike Rotterdam, Amsterdam seems to attract 'dirty ships'. The asbestos-ridden vessel Otapan is back there after being rejected in Turkey, where it was due to be scrapped; the toxic, part-dismantled Sandrien has been festering in Amsterdam since 2001 and before Probo Koala discharged its deadly chemical slops in Abidjan, they were turned down by Amsterdam Port Services " - FAIRPLAY, 26 October 2006 (Vol.358, No.6402) , pp 26-27 'Council U-turn predicted on ghost fleet demolition denial'. "There are claims that a British company's plans to dismantle ships from the US Navy's "ghost fleet" could soon be given the go-ahead. The reports come just three weeks after Able UK was denied permission to dismantle 13 ships at its Graythorp yard, in Hartlepool." - LLOYD'S LIST, 31 October 2006 (No.59284) , p 12 'Suez Canal ruling to hike scrap costs'. "The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has imposed a restriction on ships transiting the waterway that are on their final voyage to scrapyards. The move will add to the cost of demolition purchases. Ship agents in Egypt confirm that vessels destined for demolition must now be towed through the canal even if they are able to sail under their own power. They say the ruling was imposed after several incidents of breakdowns involving scrap tonnage that caused delays to other vessels." - TRADEWINDS, 10 November 2006 (Vol.17, No.45) , p 19 'Curing shipping's ills'. "Mare forum 2006, held in Athens Greece between September 25 and 26, tried an in-depth approach to the may and diverse issues facing the global maritime industry" - TANKER OPERATOR, October 2006 (Vol.5, No.6) , pp 14-17

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'Global ship recycling rule moves forward'. "The Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO made progress on a global ship recycling rule at its early October 2006 meeting" - OIL SPILL INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 26 October 2006 (Vol.29, No.44) , pp 1-2 '"Horrors of Alang I can never forget"'. "Madhu Dutta had become used to witnessing distress and dangerous working practices as a campaigner travelling around the "toxic hotspots" of India. What she saw at the shipbreaking yards at Alang in late 1997 really shocked her. Since then she has been a committed fighter for improved conditions, more recently as a supporter of the Brussels-based Platform on Shipbreaking, an umbrella body for environmental groups." - LLOYD'S LIST, 1 December 2006 (No. 59,307) , p. 6 'Greens hail Indian court ruling on Blue Lady scrapping dispute'. "Environmental and labour rights groups have welcomed a provisional ruling by the Indian Supreme Court forbidding the dismantling of the Blue Lady (formerly Norway and France) at Alang. They said the court pointed out that beaching Blue Lady possibly breached the Basel Convention, the Environment Protection Act and a 2003 order of the Indian Supreme Court and asked the Gujarat Pollution Control Board to explore the possibility of sending the vessel back." - LLOYD'S LIST, 7 December 2006 (No.59311) , p 16 'Editorial: The Blue Lady'. "The demolition. dismantling or recycling of the old transatlantic liner Norway , ex France , was always going to be an environmental cause célèbre . Disguising the old ship under an obvious name of Blue Lady would not persuade the environmentalists to call off their dogs and let it be run ashore on the Alang beaches." - LLOYD'S LIST, 11 December 2006 (No.59313) , p 7 '"Norway" could meet torch in January, say scrapping experts'. "The 76,000-gt former cruiseship and transatlantic liner Blue Lady (ex- Norway , ex- France, built 1961) is set to spend Christmas languishing on the beach at Alang but demolition players claim that cutting could finally begin as early as mid-January. Delays prompted by massive opposition from environmental pressure groups, including the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, are estimated by one source to have already cost the buyer around $1.5m. The most recent legal twist came earlier this month when India's Supreme Court gave the former Norwegian Cruise Line vessel a further stay of execution." - TRADEWINDS, 21 December 2006 (Vol.17, No.51) , p 26 'Breakers in Bangladesh buy "Odessa"'. "A Ukrainian owned cruiseship is finally heading for the scrapheap after spending many years in layup. Bowline Maritime has reportedly sold the 12,000-gt Odessa (built 1974) to cash buyers after a failed attempt to refit the ship and return it to service in the cruise industry. Scrapping sources say the ship passed through the Suez Canal on Saturday as the Sydney and is heading for a breakers beach in Bangladesh." - TRADEWINDS, 12 January 2007 (Vol.18, No.2) , p 19 'IMO to propose radical shipbreaking rules'. "The IMO has radically revised its ship recycling proposals, Fairplay has learned. The proposals seek to develop mandatory rules to minimise safety risks and environmental hazards that ship recycling poses. They include regulations for ship designs, an enforcement mechanism and an inventory of hazardous materials for shippers. The radical proposals - which Fairplay previewed at the East Asian Seas Congress last month in Haikou, Hunan, China - revise an earlier draft on which the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee requested changes, going back to its 53rd session in October 2005. " - FAIRPLAY, 18 January 2007 (Vol.359, No.6413) , p 6 'India could be stuck with Blue Lady'. "India's government has been presented with a fait accompli: an apposite phrase considering that the vessel concerned was originally the pride of the French merchant marine. Blue Lady, laid down as France, was shunned by breakers in Bangladesh because of the hazardous material it is said to contain. Demolition was then held up in India while the Supreme Court in New Delhi pondered whether to send the ship back from whence it came to have the asbestos removed. " - FAIRPLAY, 18 January 2007 (Vol.359, No.6413) , pp 40-41 'Shipping grasps its green responsibilities'. "A wide range of measures to prevent and control pollution caused by ships is positive proof that the maritime sector has a good environmental story to tell, writes Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization " - LLOYD'S LIST, 25 January 2007 (No.59343) , p 7 'Able UK "ghost ship" saga trudges into fourth year of fighting'. "Four 'ghost ships' from the US Reserve Fleet remain on the Tees, with nine more still in Virginia, as the planning and environmental debate surrounding their

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dismantling moves into yet another year. The four ships have been at Able UK's Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre at Graythorp, near Hartlepool, since 2003 - and not only has Able not been able to get on with their dismantling, nor bring over the remaining nine ships, but the saga has also put a stop to most of its other activities at the TERRC site. Last year, Able submitted new planning applications for TERRC and, with no objections from the Environment Agency or Natural England, and a recommendation for approval by planning officers, Hartlepool council was expected finally to give its plans the go-ahead." - LLOYD'S LIST, 1 February 2007 (No.59348) , p 13 'Netherlands faces Euros 4.5m bill to scrap Otapan'. "The scrapping and towing of the chemical tanker Otapan will cost Euros 4.5m ($5.8m), more than double the Dutch government's original estimates in October last year. In a letter to parliament state secretary of the environment Pieter van Geel said the vessel, which spent many weeks in limbo in the Mediterranean and in the headlines at the heart of an asbestos scrapping scandal, will now be towed from Amsterdam to Rotterdam to be cleaned." - LLOYD'S LIST, 12 February 2007 (No.59355) , p 3 'EC clears aid for tanker scrapping'. "The European Commission (EC) has cleared Italian state aid for the scrapping of single-hull tankers. Italy will be free to provide EUR 12m ($15.58m) to help small coastal ships more than 15 years old as of 31 December 2004 to the breakers' yards. "The commission feels this measure will help improve the safety of Community waters," the EC said." - TRADEWINDS, 16 February 2007 (Vol.18, No.7) , p 23 'Bimco's view on the Future Maritime Policy'. "This article is based on the speech delivered by Bimco President Knud Pontoppidan at the Brussels conference on 15 November 2006" - BIMCO BULLETIN, December 2006 (Vol.101, No.6) , pp 15-20 'Birth of an International Ship Recycling Convention'. "A draft of an International Ship Recycling Convention was submitted and discussed at the IMO's MEPC 55 meeting, held 9-13 October 2006" - BIMCO BULLETIN, December 2006 (Vol.101, No.6) , pp 34-35 'Recycling of ships 2006-2021' - BIMCO BULLETIN, December 2006 (Vol.101, No.6) , pp 110-115 'Italy scrap programme will remove 70 tankers'. "A new tanker scrapping programme to be subsidised by the Italian government and recently approved by the European Commission is expected to remove around 70 ageing vessels from Italy's waters, shipowner representatives estimated this week. Giovanni Fiore, director general of shipowners' association Confitarma said: "This will help take cabotage vessels that were not covered by previous regulations out of the market, before they start to become dangerous."" - LLOYD'S LIST, 23 February 2007 (No.59364) , p 3 'Light at the end of the recycling tunnel'. "A new IMO convention could give calls for safer ship recycling fresh impetus" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER, Jan/Feb 2007, pp 8-9 'Channel ferry is "fit for scrap" claims UK union'. "A 20-year-old ferry due to be deployed on the Portsmouth-Cherbourg route has been branded "fit for scrap" by Britain's main shipping union. Engineers on board Cyprus-flag Celtic Mist are refusing to work in the boiler room because they are concerned about the risk of CO2 poisoning, Nautilus UK is claiming. Among a litany of other alleged problems is a sludge of heavy fuel oil almost a foot deep in the bilges, as well as rodent infestation" - LLOYD'S LIST, 7 March 2007 (No.59372) , p 3 'Brussels mulls future policy for single-hull scrap surge'. "Brussels commissioners will discuss shipbreaking today amid reports that the executive's much trumpeted desire to intervene in the market is wavering. The commission will hold an 'orientation debate' on future policy this morning, during which plans for regional legislation - promised last year by environment commissioner Stavros Dimas - will be on the agenda. The debate will define the future policy direction, said a commission spokeswoman, while declining to comment on a local report that plans for the publication of a green paper have been postponed. A green paper is a discussion document which usually precedes concrete legislation." - LLOYD'S LIST, 28 March 2007 (No.59387) , p 3 'France proposes set of "eco-taxes"'. "An official report includes radical proposals to clean up ship scrapping. A high-profile French report into ship scrapping has proposed a cradle-to-grave set of "eco-taxes" on shipowners to fund clean and safe demolition. The survey, which has the ear of the French government, includes radical proposals such as the creation of a $500m fund to "incite maritime professionals to choose clean demolition sites"." - TRADEWINDS, 13 April 2007 (Vol.18, No.15) , p 21

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'OMI: recyclage des matériaux dangereux'. "L'OMO prépare une convention sur le recyclage des matériaux dangereux intégrés à la structure des navires de tous âges." - JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 11 May 2007 (No.4559-4560) , p 28 'Ship recycling in China and the "interim period"' - BIMCO BULLETIN, April 2007 (Vol.102, No.2) , pp 28-31 'Able gives up the ghost on extra ships'. "British recycling yard Able UK has lost the chance to scrap a further nine US naval reserve 'ghost ships', the company confirmed yesterday. However, it still hopes to go ahead with breaking four of the vessels, already alongside at its Teesside facility near Hartlepool, if permission is granted. Environmentalists claimed that the decades-old vessels - some of Second World War vintage - were laden with toxic substances, and should not have been towed across the Atlantic for breaking." - LLOYD'S LIST, 31 May 2007 (No.59429) , p 1 'Owners may have to foot scrapping bill, says Intercargo'. "Shipowners may have to pay to scrap their vessels in future rather than be paid for them, warns Intercargo. With large numbers of handysize bulkers facing scrapping age in the coming few years concern is growing as to where owners will be able to scrap them. "Going forward I do not see a residual value [for the ship]," Intercargo secretary-general Roger Holt told the Lloyd's List handysize and handymax conference in Singapore. "I think things are going to change and as an industry we are going to have to respond."" - LLOYD'S LIST, 4 June 2007 (No.59,431) , p 5 'Chinese breakers cash in on tougher ship recycling rules'. "China's shipbreakers could emerge the winner from tighter global environmental control over ship recycling, according to industry experts. While universal regulations over ship recycling may mean higher costs and more trouble to other industry players, it could allow Chinese shipbreakers to make a comeback. According to Mr Xie, China, once the world's largest shipbreaking country, has been facing strong competition from India and Turkey in the past few years. The total tonnage of vessels scrapped in China dived from 2.3m ldt in 2003, to just 150,000 ldt in 2005." - LLOYD'S LIST, 6 May 2007, p 5 'Shipbreaking faces ingrained hurdles'. "Regardless of the political games currently in play over ship recycling there are some fundamental hurdles to overcome. Some countries rely on the scrap metal market to provide a large percentage of their steel import and are reluctant to lose their economic advantage by introducing costly legislation. Meanwhile, environmentally sound ship scrapping can not be achieved commercially in Europe without some form of fund and by the time the IMO convention comes into force the majority of the single hull tankers being phased out may well have been scrapped." - LLOYD'S LIST, 6 June 2007 (No.59,433) , p 5 'Insight and Opinion: Laying to rest the ghosts of recycling'. "There will be a good deal of sympathy for Able UK's Peter Stephenson, who has finally been forced to pull out of the contract to demolish 13 redundant US government ships. The four "ghost? ships" remain in the River Tees in sight of Hartlepool, from where the objections to this sensible scheme came. Doubtless there will be a good deal of triumph in green circles, although regular employment in this industry might have provided a more useful legacy." - LLOYD'S LIST, 6 June 2007 (No.59,433) , p 8-9 'Lack of green scrapping a risk, say owners'. "Shipowners doubt if there will be enough 'green? shipbreaking' capacity once the International Maritime Organization's ship recycling convention comes into force. Concerns over the number of qualified ship scrapping plants were raised by shipowners at the Ship Recycling Seminar of BIMCO's biennial general meeting yesterday. India, Bangladesh and Turkey, where beach-breaking? and land-breaking are still widely used, account for 41 percent, 14 percent and 9 percent of the 11m ldt of the world's total recycling capacity, according to BIMCO marine manager Bjarne Mortensen." - LLOYD'S LIST, 7 Jun 2007 (No.59434) , p 3 'Round Table urges prompt IMO action'. "Prompt action is needed to move a number of international issues forward at the International Maritime Organization, the chairmen of the Round Table of international shipping organisations have urged. Meeting in London recently, the heads of the four Round Table organisations IMCO, ICS/ISF, Intercargo and Intertanko - Knud Pontoppidan, Spyros Polemis, Nicky Pappadakis and Nicholas Fistes respectively - looked at a range of environmental and safety legislation being considered by IMO. The four expressed concern at the need for adoption of Marpol Annex VI amendments to prevent unilateral or regional regulation. They welcomed the IMO secretary general's proposal for a scientific group to review all relevant data by the end of the year." - LLOYD'S LIST, 8 Jun 2007 (No.59435) , p 5

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'Pakistan moves in right direction'. "Pakistan claims its moving closer to complying with international safety and environmental standards. Pakistan Shipbreakers' Association secretary Asif Ali Khan says plans have been laid to ensure that the country's recycling industry meets both local and international safety thresholds. He claims Pakistan, whose scrapping of ships is concentrated at Gadani, will be ahead of India's Alang and Chittagong in Bangladesh in complying with international safety and environmental-protection requirements." - TRADEWINDS, 8 Jun 2007 (Vol.18, No.23) , p 57 'Un Livre vert sur le démantèlement des navires' - LE JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 1 June 2007 (No.4562-4563) , p 5 'UK awaits key ship recycling decision'. "UK ship recycling future hangs in the balance, pending an Environment Agency decision on whether a waste management licence should be granted to northeast yard A P Tyne. A P has been granted a certificate of lawfulness by the local council to scrap US 'ghost ships' at its base near South Shields. The agency, which is considering submissions from local resident groups opposed to the business plan, said it will decide "in weeks rather than months"." - FAIRPLAY, 14 June 2007 (Vol.360, No.6434) , p 10 'Hartlepool u-turn on "ghost ship" scrap ban'. "A shift in government policy and a change in attitude on the part of Hartlepool Borough Council has taken Able UK another step closer to being able to recycle four former US Navy 'ghost ships'. Government support for developing ship recycling facilities is being cited as the reason behind Hartlepool's decision not to contest Able UK's appeal against a ban to develop such facilities. " - LLOYD'S LIST, 19 June 2007 (No.59442) , p 2 'Getting real on recycling '. "There is little reason to think that the looming convention on ship demolition will face up to awkward realities" - LLOYD'S SHIP MANAGER, June 2007, pp 12-13 'Green passports: keeping tally'. "Robin Townsend discusses methodologies for preparing inventories of hazardous materials in ship structures" - SHIPPING WORLD AND SHIPBUILDER, June 2007 (Vol.208, 4234) , pp 38-42 'IMO courts scrapping nations on convention'. "Delegates at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are prepared to try some novel ideas to get scrapping nations to back the new recycling convention. The issue is to be debated at the Maritime Environment Protection Committee meeting next week. Insiders suggest that one condition for the new convention, which is still being formulated, could be that a certain number of ship-recycling countries must ratify the agreement first." - TRADEWINDS, 6 July 2007 (Vol.18, No.17) , p 43 'Draft ship recycling convention welcomed'. "The representative of the European Commission to last week's MEPC meeting welcomed the committee's working group on drafting the new ship recycling convention, and at the same time expressed disappointment with the speed of progress. The European Commission's green paper on ship recycling had been published, earlier this year, "to generate discussion to help solve problems" and it remained the Commission's intention to be "first looking at the IMO for both global solutions and interim measures," the representative said. Of the 35 countries participating in the group, 16 were European Union member states. The draft text ended up with twice as many square brackets - some 60 - on undecided issues by the end of the five-day meeting." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 July 2007 (No.59462) , p 5 'Industry sets out interim ship recycling guidelines'. "A group of leading industry organisations has launched a series of measures it claims can promote the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 July 2007 (No.59465) , p 4 'Able UK and Harland bid to scrap 'Napoli''. "Ship-recycling company Able UK and shipbuilder Harland Wolff (H W) are among a list of candidates said to be bidding to scrap the wreck of the 4,227-teu containership MSC Napoli (built 1992). After a successful explosives operation last week to separate the bow and stern, the UK maritime authorities and secretary of state representative Robin Middleton have started the selection process to dispose of the wreck." - TRADEWINDS, 27 July 2007 (Vol.18, No.30) , p 39 'Editorial: Responsible recycling'. "The issue of 'governance' is becoming firmly established in all public and many private companies. Sceptics may suggest that this is big business constructing defences against external attack. Others may say that being responsible is being realistic and recognising that the world is changing. A company not only has to do the right thing, but has to be seen doing so. The 'recycling' of redundant ships is clearly an area

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where a company's environmental credentials are under scrutiny. The IMO recycling convention may not bite for some time, but that is no reason for those who can make a difference to postpone responsible actions." - LLOYD'S LIST, 1 August 2007 (No.59473) , p 8 'Demolishing myths about recycling'. "I am really sorry, and I know it is unappealing to sneer, but I just cannot stop my lip curling eve y time I see or hear this terribly right-on word 'recycling'. It is a bit personal, as our local council is in the process of 'rolling out' - that is another phrase that brings out the worst in me - a rubbish collection system which requires us to sort all our garbage and apportion it to the proper unit in a selection of colour-coded wheelie bins, which will be very occasionally collected according to a complex system that appears to involve the phases of the moon and a calendar devised by the Assyrians." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 August 2007 (No.59486) , pp 8-9 'Smoke detector pose new threat'. "The long-running saga surrounding the scrapping of the former cruiseship Norway has taken yet another bizarre twist. Environmental pressure groups hoping to prevent the ship from being demolished at Alang have petitioned the Indian Supreme Court to declare the ship radioactive. The various groups opposed to the vessel's scrapping were quoted in Indian news reports last week as saying they are extremely concerned the vessel is riddled with radioactive material that could give Alang and the surrounding area an unhealthy greenish glow." - TRADEWINDS, 3 August 2007 (Vol.18, No.31) , p 34 'Councillors to approve UK scrapping'. "Work on Europe's largest shipbreaking yard is expected to begin next month, as soon as their tussle with local councillors is resolved. The £50M ($100M) scheme to convert Graythorp Shipyard on Tyneside in the UK has kept directors of Able UK, Hartlepool Borough Council and Green lobby groups occupied for over a year. " - FAIRPLAY, 20 September 2007 (Vol.361, No.6448) , p 16 'Breakers in India facing a "shake-up"'. "The Indian shipbreaking industry is set for a massive shake-up following a Supreme Court ruling that has stipulated tough new controls. Insiders say the sector is set for significant changes that will increase demolition costs and squeeze smaller breakers out of the business." - TRADEWINDS, 14 September 2007 (Vol.18, No.37) , p 15 'Ethnical recycling' - SEATRADE, Sept./October 2007 (pp 23-29) 'Démantèlement d'un navire "toxique" autorisé'. "La Cour suprême indienne a autorisé, le 11 septembre, le démantèlement du navire de croisière norvégien "Blue-Lady" contenant des matières toxiques" - LE JOURNAL DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE, 21 September 2007 (No. 4578) , p. 27 'Indian court ruling derails Alang's big opportunity'. "The second week of September was a watershed for the shipbreaking industry and produced upheavals from which it is going to take time to recover. First, there was the decision of India's Supreme Court to lay down specific rules for recycling. India has moved towards not allowing ships to be scrapped unless certificates identifying the level of toxic material on board are produced and specific safeguards are observed during the recycling process." - LLOYD'S LIST, 15 October 2007 (No.59,525) , p 15 'Ghost fleet haunts Hartlepool'. "The owner of the British company at the centre of the 'ghost ships' controversy has revealed the full scale of the contracts that could be lost due to the row. They include two oil rigs for the Mexican state oil company Pemex and an order to build sections of the new tunnel to go under the River Tyne. Campaigners, who include environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth, claim the recycling of the ships from the American reserve fleet could cause pollution. They are trying to stop Able UK getting planning permission to upgrade its dry dock at Hartlepool to carry out the recycling work. But the dry dock also needs to be upgraded for the work on the rigs and the Tyne Tunnel sections." - LLOYD'S LIST, 17 October 2007 (No.59,527) , pp 10-11 'Green ship recycling gets new voice'. "A new organisation designed to give green ship recycling a global voice is being launched by a 10-strong shipyard group. The group includes the two largest breakers in China and is supported by companies such as Maersk. The International Ship Recycling Association will initially comprise six Turkish, two Chinese, a Dutch and US dismantling yard. This initiative is clearly timed to coincide with the development of the International Maritime Organization Convention on the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, the text of which is due to be accepted by early 2009." - LLOYD'S LIST, 24 October 2007 (No.59,532) , p 3 'UK recycling plant stalled'. "The future of the world's largest dry dock and ship recycling plant on Teesside hangs in the balance after local councillors deferred a decision to give the $100M scheme the go-ahead last week. Shipbreakers Able UK had hoped to close the deal for the ambitious project, which would have created 1,500 local

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jobs, after Hartlepool Council dropped its previous objections earlier this year. But after a stormy meeting, councillors voted to defer their decision on Able's four planning and environmental applications for the site. The meeting grew so heated that police ejected an environmental protester from the session." - FAIRPLAY, 18 October 2007 (Vol.361, No.6452) , p 6 Able UK denies plan to scrap 150-vessel 'toxic armada''. "The company at the centre of the 'ghost ships' row has dismissed claims that it is planning to dismantle another 150 vessels. The environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth say a "toxic armada" is set to come to Hartlepool." - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 October 2007 (No.59,536) , p 5 Ghost whispers'. "It is good news for Teesside that the UK's premier recycler Able UK will at long last be able to get to work on its contract to dismantle the notorious 'ghost ships' which have been pointlessly languishing while the interminable environmental objections have been dealt with." - LLOYD'S LIST, 30 October 2007 (No.59,536) , p 8 Shipbreakers join forces'. "Shipbreakers from four countries (China, The Netherlands, Turkey, US) have formed a new global association aimed at giving the ship recycling sector an international voice." - FAIRPLAY SOLUTIONS, November 2007 (Issue No.134) , p 5 Breakers struggle to go green'. "The newly formed International Ship Recycling Association says yards in India and Bangladesh will find it hard to become environmentally compliant and meet the expected requirements from the international community." - LLOYD'S LIST, 20 November 2007 (No.59,551) , p 7 Work starts on ISO Ship Recycling Standards'. "On 12 and 13 September 2007, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) held the first meeting of a new working group which has been given the task of writing a Ship Recycling Standard. BIMCO participated in the meeting. " - BIMCO BULLETIN, October 2007 (Vol. 102 No.5) , pp 16-17 State of play on three big issues'. "Marpol Annex VI, which controls air pollution from ships, only came into force in 2005, after taking eight years to be ratified by IMO member states. In 2003, guidelines for ship recycling were adopted and in 2005, the IMO assembly told the MEPC to develop mandatory ship-recycling rules. It took 14 years to come up with the Ballast Water Convention, adopted in February 2004." - TRADEWINDS, 30 November 2007 (Vol.18 No.48) , p 23