After the successful organisation of two editions of the Ship Recycling Lab: Transformation Through Innovation back in 2022 and 2024, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, still recognising the need for visionary solutions…
Members of Turkish organisations raise alarm about critical levels of pollution in Aliağa, as well as severe systemic mismanagement, and continue their call to remove Turkish shipbreaking yards from the EU list of ship…
Environmental and Human Rights Groups condemn decision as Mokihana sails out of the U.S. to India Seattle / Brussels – 3 February 2026 — The Basel Action Network (BAN) and the NGO…
In the last four months, Aliağa ship recycling workers have faced three tragic fatal accidents. Despite repeated warnings by civil society organisations, inadequate occupational safety measures, insufficient inspections, and weak enforcement of labour and environmental regulations continue to threaten…
IndustriALL Europe and NGO Shipbreaking Platform call for a robust European Industrial Maritime Strategy for sustainable ship recycling and quality jobs IndustriALL Europe and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform issued a joint statement calling…
The European Commission launched its long-awaited consultation on the 15th update of the European List of ship recycling facilities. As the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, we call on the EU to remove all…
In recent months, Turkey’s ship recycling sector has experienced significant movements. From controversies surrounding the sale of shipbreaking yards to the arrival of a UK Navy vessel, and now the…
On 31 August last year, a fatal accident occurred during the dismantling of the Norwegian floating oil platform Bideford Dolphin at the IŞIKSAN ship recycling yard in Aliağa, İzmir. Ten workers onboard…
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…