There is enough capacity in Europe for owners not to send their vessels to overseas yards with "poor environmental standards", according to green campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E).
Its analysis shows domestic yards will be able to cope with the number of EU-flagged ships that need to be scrapped.
The shipping industry wants low-cost ship non-EU breakers to be added to the EU list of approved facilities in order to meet demand from vessels bound by the bloc’s ship recycling law, which enters force on 1 January 2019, it said.
