European environmentalists are claiming a hard-line campaign against the sale of ships for demolition in India has been vindicated following another fatal accident on the beaches of Alang and are challenging the shipowners’ view that European waste requirements should not apply to shipping.
As earlier reported, action by Brussels-based lobby group NGO Shipbreaking Platform led to the detention of the 47,500-gt car carrier Global Spirit (built 1987) in Belgium, prior to its planned demolition in Alang, by enforcing the European Union (EU)’s Waste Shipment Regulation.
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