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Shipping company calls for international mandatory regulation to stop deadly effects...

Press release | 10 June, 2003 at 2:00

One of the world's biggest shipping companies, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), conceded today that international mandatory regulations are necessary to protect workers and prevent environmental pollution at Asian shipbreaking yards. MSC...

Industry scuttles progress on safe ship disposal

Press release | 17 February, 2005 at 1:00

Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network (BAN) condemned the special joint United Nations meeting (1) on shipbreaking as an utter failure today. The meeting was hijacked by the shipping industry interests throughout, blocking any attempts to clean...

Destination Unknown - European single hull oiltankers: no place to go

Publication | 7 December, 2004 at 1:00

Report looking at what will happen to the single hulled oil tankers being phased out in the EU and how will they be scrapped.

At the graveyard of ships workers break up

Image | 1 February, 2004 at 1:00

At the graveyard of ships workers break up scrap metal and ships lined up in distance await demolition, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Greenpeace opposes the practice of dumping obsolete toxic loaded ships for demolition in developing countries such as...

With international agreement that ships can

Image | 4 May, 2002 at 2:00

With international agreement that ships can be considered toxic waste, better controls on shipbreaking should result.

Tricks of the trade

Generic multimedia item | 5 April, 2004 at 2:00

You're the owner of an old rustbucket ship containing toxic chemicals. Do you send it to India for dismantling by unprotected human labour, or can you find a more ecological way?

A partly scrapped hulk of a tanker lies crippled

Image | 1 January, 2004 at 1:00

A partly scrapped hulk of a tanker lies crippled on the beach at the shipbreaking yard, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Greenpeace opposes the practice of dumping obsolete toxic loaded ships for demolition in developing countries such as Bangladesh.

Greenpeace activists protest in front of

Image | 8 December, 2004 at 1:00

Greenpeace activists protest in front of the European Commission building in Turkey. More than 50 toxic ships are sent from the European countries to Turkey each year to scrap. Greenpeace demands the EU to take urgent action, to prevent further...

Greenpeace activists this morning boarded

Image | 4 October, 2002 at 3:00

Greenpeace activists this morning boarded a ship in Antwerp to investigate whether or not it contains hazardous materials

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