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Green Ship Recycling- A Safe and Environmentally Sound Approach for Ship Recycling

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When a ship or offshore units approach their end of life, the safest way to recycle these units is by sending units to those Ship Recycling Facilities that follow Green Recycling Process and those Ship recycling Facilities that have received Statement of Compliance for Hong Kong Convention Ship Recycling process or if the Ship recycling facilities have EU listing for recycling as per EUSRR.    It should be noted that these certified Ship recycling Facilities have been trained and tested to handle ship recycling methodically to ensure safe and environmentally sound recycling. These Ship recycling facilities also have management systems that have been certified to ensure that methodical ship recycling is carried out by the ship recycling facility. Furthermore these Ship recycling Facilities would also have experience of having handled a number of ships for green ship recycling Deals with toxic material cautiously- The green ship recycling process is based upon a strict and proper def
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How Ship Demolition Playing a Significant Role Towards Saving Our Surrounding and Society?

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Despite hundreds of vessels recycled annually, the ship recycling companies have to be always alert on the safety of the environment and its workers. It is a fact the ship on its end of life is recycled and reused that therefore adding sustainability to our surroundings.   Here are a few facts that you should be know about the contribution of the vessels recycling industries toward our both environment and society.   01- They help to boost our local economy- The ship recycling industries caters the market especially to many other trades, for second-hand items like machinery, furniture, electrical equipment, joinery, hardware items, home décor, household appliances, and many more.   This supports the concept of trade ecology because the material obtained from the yards of ship recycling is used as inputs in many industries to refurbish items that are traded into the second-hand market. Steel melting mills and steel re-rolling mills use ferrous scrap from the parts of the ships to m
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Global Ship Recycling Needs and Wirana’s Responsibilities to it

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  Introduction to Green Ship Recycling     Green ship recycling is a sustainable and environment-friendly ship breaking process if we talk about the ship disposal of an old, damaged or a retired vessel. It is the best alternative method as compared to conventional methods of ship breaking. The problem with the conventional methods of ship demolition was that it was not environment-friendly and it could affect millions of water bodies.      Developing countries across the Globe understands the need to keep our environment green and clean, so it is investing significantly in the manufacturing sector. Also, there is huge demand for new vessels for various sectors such as oil & gas sector, shipping industry, supply chains management etc.   Through rapid technological advancements, it’s demanding that companies must upgrade their shipping vessels. So, in the near future, green ship recycling is likely to increase at the vast pace.   Why Green Ship Recycling? Through this proces
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What Actually Happens to the Retired Vessels?

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  In this shipping industry, we celebrate the birth of new vessels with press conferences and bottles of champagne but on the contrary, we rarely address what actually happens with the retired ships. If you are one of those who have been wondering about what happens to the retired ships, then here's what you need to know about ship demolition and scrapping.    What happens to old vessels? As the ships age with each passing year, vessel owners have various choices which include refurbishing and relocating the vessels into smaller regions, selling them to other lines or sending them to the yard for scraping purposes. At the end, all the ships will be retired and scrapped and yes of course, with some few exceptions like QE 2 which are later turned into hotels or attractions. How the process of ship recycling is carried out at the yards? Ship recycling involves a systematic removal of all items on board the ship and then cutting the ship metal into small blocks. Although it must
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Economic Importance of Ship Recycling

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  One can't deny from the fact that ship recycling is the only and best way of disposing the end-of-life vessels. If we talk about it in the terms of statistics, then, it is for sure that almost 80% of the end of life vessels including ships and tankers both are recycled at the ship demolition yards. On the other hand, the ship breaking industry is being criticized for Poor implementation of safety and environmental standards. You must be aware of CPCB or Central Pollution Control Board, it has declared the ship breaking industry under RED category. But, in the recent years, significant amount of efforts have been put so as to to conduct this recycling activity in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Now, almost all the ship recycling yards have adopted to International standards of recycling the ships. This also ensures the fact that the hazardous material inventory that are made available from the vessels as well as the stock of materials are efficiently managed and recover
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Possible merits and demerits of Ship Recycling

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  All ships reach their end of life stage which could be either due to technical reasons of ship becoming very old and expensive to repair/maintain or due to commercial reasons where the freight market is so low that it is not sustainable to operate the ship. While commercial reasons are purely a result of market play which can differ on a case to case basis, technically, a ship reaches its end of life anywhere from 23- 35 years depending on type of ship.   Abandoning the ship is the most uneconomical and environmentally dangerous practice to follow. In spite of that we know that there are still many smaller ships around the world which are being abandoned.   Recycling of ships is the only option that must be practiced by all Ship Owners around the world. Here in this blog, we are going to discuss some of the merits and demerits / possible demerits of ship recycling.   Merits of ship recycling: ·          Steel constitutes about 90% of the total light weight. Steel from ship is
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All about Valuable Materials & Hazardous / Toxic Components - The Ship Recycling Process

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  Shipping is the main mode of transport for traded goods and about 90% of the traded goods are transported by sea. Although transfer and transport of goods and services are never ending, individual ships last for few decades only. When a ship becomes too expensive and difficult for the owner to repair after about 27 to 30 years of service (depending on the type of ship and its freight market conditions), the shipping companies send the Ship for recycling where all the valuable metals and materials are scrapped out and the toxic ones are disposed off in the safe and environment friendly method. Almost all the ships, including Cruise ships and tankers go for recycling after they reach their end of life.   Valuable Components: During the ship recycling process, the valuable materials such as Steel, aluminum, brass and more materials are brought out from the ship which are then sold in the market for reuse. For the steel mills that supply materials to construction industries, old ship
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