Lobby group NGO Shipbreaking Platform has failed in its bid to to halt the proposed sale of the 32-year-old container ro-ro (conro) Atlantic Cartier (built 1985) for demolition in India.
The Brussels-based group filed a complaint to the Basel Focal Point — a reporting centre for whistle-blowers — alerting authorities that as a Swedish-flag ship trading mainly in European waters the vessel should be scrapped under the Basel Convention or European Union (EU) Waste Regulation.
