Brussels, 21
January 2016 - The NGO Shipbreaking Platform publishes today the eighth 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.
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(Pictured:
Representatives of Platform member organization BILS visit workers severely
injured at Shitol Enterprise at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital)
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In this edition you
will find out about the appalling accident record of the shipbreaking yards in
Bangladesh in 2015. Very unfortunately, the New Year has already seen its first
fatal accident in the shipbreaking yards of Chittagong. Our Bangladeshi member
organisation OSHE Foundation recently published a Bengali language documentary
highlighting some of our major concerns regarding occupation health and safety
in the yards. In the last quarter of 2015, 150 large commercial vessels were
sold for breaking, 104 of these were beached in South Asia.
Source: ship
breaking platform. 21 January 2016
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