Wednesday, 24 September 2025 Brussels, Belgium From Shipyards to Ports: Speeding Up the Maritime Transition The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a member of the CirclesOfLife consortium, invites you to take part…
Turkish Civil Society Organisations take legal action to ensure Environmental Impact Assessment of the ship recycling sector in Aliağa On 10 January 2024 a coalition of organisations, including Aegean Environment…
Following the publication of a report on the Turkish ship recycling sector in Aliağa, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform and the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL)…
One of the world’s largest container shipping companies, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), is again under the spotlight for its substandard and hazardous dismantling of obsolete vessels on tidal beaches in…
As a member of CirclesOfLife, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform is pleased to share the consortium’s latest press release and eager to invite you to join us in building a more sustainable maritime sector.…
In this quarterly publication, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Providing an overview of accidents that took place on the beaches of…
Deadly accident in a yard with Hong Kong Convention certification Brussels, September 18, 2024 – The explosion on the oil tanker MT Suvarna Swarajya on September 7, 2024, in Bangladesh underscores the lack of adequate…
The innovative event on ship recycling After the successful organisation of the first edition of the Ship Recycling Lab: Transformation Through Innovation back in 2022, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, still…
In this quarterly publication, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Providing an overview of accidents that took place on the beaches of…
Targeting sustainability and fleet managers, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform calls for the adoption of responsible ship recycling policies in letters sent to shipping companies standing out for their particularly poor…
Three years after initial protests and warnings, the infamous shipbreaking company Deep Water Recovery Ltd (DWR) persists in scrapping vessels at Union Bay, Canada, in blatant violation of international and national…
On February 3, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform presented its latest report, Ship Recycling in Turkey – Challenges and Future Directions, in Izmir, Turkey. Attending the event, representatives from local NGOs, unions…
CORRECTION Brussels, 2 February 2024 – Following new information provided by local sources and Polaris Shipping’s PR Agency, Polaris was not confirmed to be the beneficial owner of any vessel scrapped in…
NGOs call on the European Union and ship owners to follow suit The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s new Ship Recycling Regulation requires a dry dock or equivalent infrastructures for environmentally…
In this quarterly publication, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Providing an overview of accidents that took place on the beaches of…
Last week, a judgment was handed down by a Rotterdam Court in the Netherlands, convicting the Dutch shipping company Jumbo and two of its directors for their involvement in the…
In a letter addressed to the UNDP, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), the Basel Action Network (BAN), and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, representing a global coalition of human rights and…
On 31 May, between 2PM and 7:30PM, the NGOs ZERO, Sciaena, NGO Shipbreaking Platform and Circular Economy Portugal are organising the conference “Waves of change: towards circular and sustainable shipping”…
Violation of three environmental treaties called absolutely unnecessary by NGOs Last night, the Brazilian Navy, after months of refusing to allow its old aircraft carrier SÃO PAULO to safely return…
NGOs urgently call on President Lula to prevent Navy from sinking toxic ship in the Atlantic The former Brazilian Aircraft Carrier named SÃO PAULO, laden with asbestos, PCBs and other…
NGOs demand urgent action of Lula administration as ship needs repair and safe harbour Three months after its return to Brazil following Turkey’s rejection to scrap it, the toxic aircraft carrier SÃO…
Due diligence in supply chain needed to curb environmental crime In March, the Norwegian Court of Appeal convicted ship owner Georg Eide of complicity in an attempt to export the…
Stakeholders that are pioneering a new future for sustainable ship recycling gathered in Rotterdam at the NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s Ship Recycling Lab: Transformation through Innovation. New technologies, ethical circular economy models,…
Green groups applaud Turkish request The Brazilian government and Sok Denizcilik Tic.Ve Ltd.Sti (SOK) of Aliaga, Turkey, the buyer of the Aircraft Carrier SÃO PAULO, were sent scrambling on August…
Toxic warship on 6,000-mile illegal voyage across the Atlantic Environmental, human rights, and labor organisations from around the world are sounding the alarm over the former Brazilian aircraft carrier SÃO…