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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...

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. Althou...

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...

Important Benefits of Tanker Recycling

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  Since the late 19th century, most of the oil tankers are being used to transport large amounts of oil across Oceans and waterways. If we talk about today, then almost 60 to 65% of the oil is been transported around the world by tankers. And after the tankers serves for around good 25 to 30 years, it starts to show the signs of wear and tear. The tankers then go for recycling. The actual tanker recycling process is a complex and daunting task which involves a lot of efforts and labor into it.   In this blog, we'll talk about various important benefits that tankers recycling provides to us. So, let's start with the benefits! ·          It benefits the environment in an incredible manner: One of the best advantages that recycling of the tankers provides is that it can save the environment to a greater level. This means, when you recycle the materials that you get from the terminated tankers, you actually divert them from the landfill...

Ship Demolition Process

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  Are you aware of the procedure of ship demolition ? If no, then this article is all about it and the steps involved in this procedure. ·          The most basic and common way to dismantle a ship is by breaking it into a number of different parts before breaking it further. If we talk about some of the biggest ship breaking yard in our country, then the process of ship demolition starts at the seashore. A number of ship breaking contractors or cash buyers have their offices at the shipyards along the coasts of the seas.    ·          When a ship is on the verge of breaking down, then it needs to float steadily and hit the beach of the shipping yard where it is being stopped. Once it reaches on the sea shore, the engine of the ship is shut down and the anchor is dropped off so as to make the ship steady. Then the ship breakers who are involved in the ship breaking process start to work a...

Learn How Good is the Process of Green Ship Recycling

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  After thorough research, it was found that the green ship recycling process unquestionably is a highly beneficial process that every ship demolition company should take into consideration. The best thing is that this process contributes very much efficiency to the sustainability of our ecosystem.   Since the introduction of the green ship recycling method and after the implementation of this process by many ships breaking industries it was found that doesn’t have any bad impact on our whole ecosystem which was and is possible in case one chooses any other method of shipbreaking than this one. When you are selling out your old ship to any cash buyers of the ship, you need to at first confirm regarding the process they consider for ship dismantling. You as well as the company you choose to sell your vessel should be responsible for environmental safety and protection against harmful effects that it gets mostly from the shipbreaking. Some highlights have made the concep...