We encourage and support the demand of Ship Owners for ship sale to yards which comply with Green Recycling.
Green Recycling is –
- Detailed documentation of Ship Dismantling procedure followed by Ship Breaker to be accounted for every ship
- Disposal of hazardous materials like asbestos, TBT’S, PCB’S by the right agencies in the right way. One such organisation, set up by Gujarat Maritime Board, Alang, India is Gujarat Enviro Protection & Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL). Set up in 2005, this organisation maintains a site of 7 hectares to collect, transport, receive, store, process, dispose off by land fill or other required treatments, the hazardous wastes of yards in Alang. Maintenance of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (earlier
- known as Green Passport) where all the hazardous materials and their location on board is liste
IMO recognised that ship dismantling should not discontinued as everything from a dismantled ship is put to productive re use. Ship Recycling helps remove large obsolete tonnage, which would otherwise require big finances to be maintained without use. Green Recycling is being encouraged in all the Ship Recycling Countries. While in Alang most of the yards have been certified ISO 9001, 14001, 180001 and 30000, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China are soon catching up.