TradeWinds’ Ship Recycling Forum in Hamburg last week stoked up heated debate on recycling standards despite the absence of one of the industry’s most provocative groups.
Industry lobby group NGO Shipbreaking Platform felt unable to attend the event this year because of an ongoing “defamation” legal spat with GMS, a cash buyer of ships for demolition.
But there was a sense of urgency with less than a year before the European Union's Ship Recycling Regulation (SRR) comes into force.
