The International Maritime Organisation (IMO)’s Marine Environment Protection Committee met this month. Ship recycling — as personified by the never-ending tinkering of the dead-in-the-water IMO Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships — was the third item on the agenda, although the discussion has now been pushed back to January.
Strangely, the working group tasked with developing threshold standards for the convention is currently chaired by the US Maritime Administration (MarAd).
