Port State Control inspections of foreign flag vessels31 Jan 2024, IndiaIndia has introduced a comprehensive procedure for Port State Control inspections of foreign flag vessels calling at the country’s ports.READ…
Worker dies at Kabir Steel’s shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh Yesterday, cutter man Shahidul lost his life while working at Kabir Steel’s Khawja shipbreaking yard in Chattogram (f.k.a. Chittagong), Bangladesh. According…
Chittagong, 18 February 2019 – Today, a fire broke out in the engine room on board a tanker, beached in Chittagong, killing two workers. Md Jamil, 23 years old cutter man,…
Brussels, 4 May 2018 – In Chittagong, Bangladesh, on the International Labour Day of 1 May, the Platform member organisation YPSA brought together shipbreaking workers for a demonstration to claim…
London P&I Club warns of increased risk at congested Chittagong anchorage The London P&I Club has noted a marked increase in accidents involving ships at anchor in the Bangladeshi port…
A Maersk oil ship is just now being scrapped in a dangerous shipbreaking yard at the infamous Chittagong beach in Bangladesh. Danwatch can furthermore reveal that, in 2014 Maersk pressured…
10 shipbreaking workers killed or severely injured in one month only Brussels, 27 June 2016 – At least five shipbreaking workers have been killed and five more severely injured in a series of fatal…
Violence reaches new level: shipbreaking yards’ private security personnel fire shots and injure seven people Chittagong/Brussels, 4 April 2016 – In the morning of 28 March, shipbreaking worker Sumon was killed on…
Brussels, 9 February 2015 – A video published by the American magazine VICE, “Where giant cargo ships go to die”, available on its website, shows that both the working conditions and the…
Platform News – National Geographic Magazine reveals child labour, toxic waste dumping in Bangladesh shipbreaking yards 16 April 2014 – The upcoming May edition of National Geographic Magazine features a…
NGOs blame operators of shipbreaking yards and global ship owners Brussels/Chittagong, 4 April 2014 – Four shipbreaking workers were killed and another three were critically injured yesterday when a gas…
Brussels, 27 February 2014 – The NGO Shipbreaking Platform and its 18 member organisations around the world applaud the Forest Department and the District Administration for removing two shipbreaking yards that…