NGO Shipbreaking Platform
HQ 🇧🇪 Belgium · 1 project tracked
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Latest from NGO Shipbreaking Platform
📰 Update · 1w
Press Release – Most EU ships are being scrapped in South Asia despite sufficient domestic recycling capacity, confirms new study
📰 Update · 3w
Press Release – Nine shipbreaking workers killed in Bangladesh
📰 Update · Jul 30
Press Release – European Commission Must Not Approve Beaching Yards on the Updated EU List
📰 Update · Jul 9
Press Release – Turkish Civil Society Organisations Respond to New ‘Sham’ EIA Process and the Ship Recycling Regulation
📰 Update · Jul 2
Press Release – Massive Oil Spill at India’s “Best Shipbreaking Yard” Raises Serious Concerns Over Hong Kong Convention Certification. NGOs call for a global ban on beaching
📰 Update · May 19
Press Release – EUROFER, Recycling Europe and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform urge the EU to put a stop to the double standards in the shipbreaking sector
📰 Update · May 4
Press Release – The EU Circular Economy Act risks missing the boat on ship recycling and true circularity
📰 Update · Apr 7
Save The Date – Ship Recycling Lab 2026: Transformation Through Innovation
Counting the Ships and the Bodies
Waste & Recycling🇧🇪 Belgium
A European shipowner can sell a worn-out vessel to a cash buyer, watch it be renamed and reflagged mid-voyage, and never legally have sent anything to a beach in South Asia.
8,221shipsShips beached since 2009
480deathsWorker deaths recorded since 2009
255shipsShips dismantled in South Asian yards in 2024