GL promotes green ship recycling in China

The MOU was signed at a workshop in China. Training will be one of the keys to preparing ship recycling yards to operate in a stricter environmental climate. Under the MOU, China National Ship Recycling Association and GL will work to develop pilot projects, research practices and a programme which familiarises both management and workers at the yards with the incoming regulations and the requirements needed to meet standards.

The European Commission has recently proposed new regulations based on the requirements of the Hong Kong Convention that would require European ships to be recycled in facilities deemed to be safe for workers and also environmentally sound. Under the new rules, ship recycling facilities would have to meet a set of environmental and safety requirements in order to be included on a list of authorised facilities world wide. European ships will be allowed to be recycled only in facilities on the list. Some of these requirements needing to be met by the ship recycling facilities are stricter than those of the Hong Kong Convention.