Abstract:
The world's major trade in goods transport is
done by sea transport, ship as main sea transport vehicle playing an important
role in the course of sea transportation. Shipbuilding, shipping and
ship-recycling industry as closely related to the ship, all play an important
role. Among them forming a complete industrial chain, no the existence of the
shipping industry would not have shipbuilding and ship-recycling industry, the
same with shipbuilding and shipping industry to ship-recycling. Since the 2008
financial crisis, the shipping industry has begun to slump, a large number of
idle ships. In order to reduce operating costs, owners begin to speed up the
elimination of old ships. Ship-recycling industry has been called the
"smoke-free metallurgy", turning waste into wealth, recycling of
resources, for the disposal of old retired ships providing a good way.
Ship-recycling as the inverse process of shipbuilding, it mainly scraps, reuses
and recycles the materials and equipments in old ships which include scrap
steel and non-ferrous metals, electrical appliances, life-saving equipments,
etc. On one hand, ship-recycling industry can timely dismantle the ship to
prevent the over-age ships polluting the marine environment; on the other hand,
it can supply a large amount of scrap steel to meet the need of the market,
reducing expenses on iron ore import.Meanwhile, the ship-recycling industry is
a high pollution and high risk industry, if not pay enough attention to it, it
is likely to cause environmental pollution and the damage to personal safety
and health. In order to maximize safety and environmentally sound
ship-recycling, "International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally
Sound Recycling of ships” passed in May of 2009 in Hong
Kong . The convention has become the first worldwide application of
international mandatory provisions relating to ship-recycling. The paper tries
to make an inquiry about the provisions of the convention and the relevant
provisions of domestic law on the ship-recycling legal issues. There are five
chapters totally. The first chapter is an introduction, introducing the
research significance, content, method, purpose and present situation; The
second chapter introduces domestic legal documents on the ship-recycling, and
then points out the deficiencies; The third chapter is about the convention.
The paper introduces first the background of the convention, then the important
regulations described in the convention, and lastly analyzes deficiencies that
exist in the convention. The forth chapter is a combination of the second
chapter and the third chapter, referring the provisions of the convention to
amend our domestic legislation. The fifth chapter recording to the existing
provisions of domestic law, from environmental criminal liability,
administrative liability and civil liability views to analyze environmental
pollution resulting from ship-recycling.
Key words:
Ship-recycling; Ship-recycling Pollution; Safe
and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships; Ship-recycling Convention
Source: (Accessed on 30 September 2011)
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