Pakistan’s shipbreaking industry is aiming to comply
with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Hong Kong Convention for
the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.
The chairman of the Pakistan Ship Breakers Assn told
Metal Bulletin sister title Steel First that he has met with government
officials to discuss measures for complying with the treaty, which comes into
force in 2015. “We are ready to take steps to protect and promote the
shipbreaking industry,” Deewan Rizwan Farooqui said. He said that while
shipbreakers pay around PKR5 billion ($51.1 million) in annual taxes to the
government, they are not provided with clean drinking water, electricity or
good telephone services at Gadani, the Arabian Sea port where the country’s
ship-scrapping industry is...
Source: metal bulletin. 11 March 2013
http://www.metalbulletin.com/Article/3166632/Ferrous/Pakistani-shipbreaking-industry-in-bid-to-comply-with-international-ship-recyclingtreaty.html
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