The NGO Shipbreaking Platform publishes today the sixth South
Asia Quarterly Update, a briefing paper in which it informs about the
shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Providing an overview
of vessels broken on the beaches of South Asia, accidents, recent
on-the-ground, legislative and political developments including our activities
in South Asia we aim to inform the public about the negative impacts of
substandard shipbreaking practices as well as positive steps aimed at the
realisation of environmental justice and the protection of workers’ rights.
In this sixth edition of the update we inform amongst others
about recent cases of workers killed or injured in shipbreaking yards. Between
April and July 2015, the Platform documented at least six fatal accidents in
the shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh. It recorded three severe injuries in
these three months. In the month of July only, at least five workers died in
various accidents. We also inform about the operation on Ebrahim’s leg, a
15-year-old worker, thanks to private donations made by people who saw a
documentary about shipbreaking filmed last year in Chittagong.
Ebrahim walking again in his home village, thanks to an
operation performed on his leg.
213 large commercial
vessels were sold for breaking in the second quarter of 2015, including 136
end-of-life ships that were beached in South Asia, most of which ended up in
Alang or Mumbai in India (52 ships), Chittagong in Bangladesh (47 ships), and
Gadani in Pakistan (37 ships).
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Source: Hellenic shipping news.
31 July 2015
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