New ship recycling code to minimise dismantling risks

  • 13/12/2000

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

For the past three or four years, environmental groups have been highlighting conditions in ship demolition yards, primarily in the Indian subcontinent and China. So the code's call for all ships to be delivered to the recycling yards with their tanks (except, of course, some bunker tanks) cleaned and certified to full hotwork and entry standards seems eminently reasonable.