A record number of more than 200 shipbreakers, shipbrokers and buyers at the cutting edge of ship demolition descended on Singapore for last week’s TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum, including presidents of the Indian, Bangladesh and Pakistan recycling associations.

A packed afternoon workshop discussed the improvements at the waterfront, including a rapidly growing number of Alang shipbreakers now holding a statement of compliance with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (Hong Kong Convention).