OUR NEWS

 

21 December 2015 | Platform News – NGO encourages ship recyclers to now apply for EU List

17 November 2015 | Platform News – OSHE releases video on the struggle for decent work at the Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards

16 November 2015 | Press Release – NGO Shipbreaking Platform calls on Italian owners to stop beaching their toxic ships

16 October 2015 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #7

23 September 2015 | Press release – NGOs applaud Matson for clean and safe recycling policy, but regret ship beached in India

14 September 2015 | Press Release – NGOs denounce dangerous working conditions after four shipbreaking workers are killed

10 September 2015 | Platform News – Platform welcomes new Turkish partner organisation

8 September 2015 | Press Release – NGOs call on Polish state owned shipping company Polsteam to stop beaching its toxic ships

3 September 2015 | Save the date – “A clean break from the dirty work” – London, 8 September 2015

1 September 2015 | Platform News – Platform features in “Gender heroes” brochure by Basel Convention/UNEP

18 August 2015 | Press release – Norwegian Shipowners’ Association Says No to Beaching

11 August 2015 | Platform News – Shipbreaking at SAIL Amsterdam 2015: CSR Netherlands explains sustainable recycling to children and parents at pop-up scrap yard

30 July 2015 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #6

6 July 2015 | Platform News – Platform welcomes new IndustriALL campaign on ship recycling: living and working conditions of shipbreaking workers still deplorable

22 June 2015 | Platform News – NGO Shipbreaking Platform presents its Annual Report 2014

10 June 2015 | Platform News – NGO Shipbreaking Platform holds AGM 2015, visits ship recycling yards in Turkey

28 May 2015 | Press Release – Civil society calls on Greece to address poor environmental performance of Greek shipping

20 May 2015 | Invitation to Sustainable Shipping event – 27 May 2015

15 April 2015 | Platform News – NGO Shipbreaking Platform works hand in hand with Dutch ship owner Boskalis for sustainable ship recycling in Mexico

13 April 2015 | Platform News – New Briefing Paper “What a difference a flag makes – Why ship owners’ responsibility to ensure sustainable ship recycling needs to go beyond flag state jurisdiction”

10 April 2015 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #5

2 April 2015 | Platform News – 32 Multinational Companies Say ‘No’ to Dirty and Dangerous Shipbreaking

9 February 2015 | Platform news – New video by VICE shows child labour and low environmental standards in Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards

29 January 2015 | Platform News – Platform welcomes new Japanese partner organisation

26 January 2015 | Press Release – New List of Global Dumpers Is Out

16 January 2015 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #4

18 December 2014 | Platform News – Dire working and living conditions in Indian shipbreaking yards

23 October 2014 | Platform News – “Toxic ships for Bangladesh”: A TV documentary on German ship owners and their shipbreaking practices

23 October 2014 | Platform News – “Giftiger Tankerschrott für Bangladesch”: Fernsehdokumentation über deutsche Reeder und die Abwrackpraxis ihrer Schrottschiffe

9 October 2014 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #3

4 September 2014 | Platform News – Report explains how Dutch banking groups deal with risks involved with shipbreaking

27 August 2014 | Platform News – Platform applauds Hapag-Lloyd for new ship recycling policy, calls on ship owners to follow

15 July 2014 | Platform News – Platform debates environmental injustice and the role of EU companies at event

7 July 2014 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #2

27 June 2014 | Press Release – Toxic Ship Sent for Sustainable Recycling after Belgium Stopped Illegal Export

20 June 2014 | Platform News – NGO Shipbreaking Platform presents Annual Report 2013

6 June 2014 | Press Release – Japanese End-of-life Ship Arrested in Antwerp

4 June 2014 | Communiqué de presse – La Belgique Doit Arrêter l’Export d’un Navire Toxique Vers l’Inde

4 June 2014 | Press Release – Belgium Called Upon to Halt Export of Toxic Ship

21 May 2014 | Press Release – Shipping companies’ dumping of end-of-life ships claims at least 15 lives in South Asia in 2014

19 May 2014 | Press Release – Broad NGO coalition denounces EU Blue Growth Strategy at Fair Oceans Conference

6 May 2014 | Press Release – NGO Calls on Italian Government to Ensure Clean and Safe Dismantling of Costa Concordia

18 April 2014 | Press Release – NGOs Call on Bangladeshi Government to Thoroughly Investigate the Abduction of Rizwana Hasan’s Husband

16 April 2014 | Platform News – National Geographic Magazine reveals child labour, toxic waste dumping in Bangladesh shipbreaking yards

7 April 2014 | Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #1

4 April 2014 | Press Release – Lack of safety kills four shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh yard

6 March 2014 | Press Release – NGOs Call on Singapore Ship Owners to End Dangerous Shipbreaking Practices and Embrace Modern Ship Recycling

27 February 2014 | Platform News – Authorities demolish two illegal shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh

14 February 2014 | Platform News – Risks in Maritime Transport Conference Organised with Surfrider Foundation Europe

7 February 2014 | Press Release – High Time for Stricter Rules for Shipbreaking: Rally addresses Hamburg ship owners

7 February 2014 | Gemeinsame Presseerklärung – Höchste Zeit für strengere Regeln und Verantwortung beim Verschrotten von Schiffen – Aktion vor Hamburger Reedereien

3 February 2014 | Press Release – NGOs Publish 2013 List of Toxic Ship Dumpers: German and Greek Shipping Companies Amongst the World’s Worst

17 December 2013 | Platform News – European Ship Recyclers Call on the EU for a Financial Incentive for End-of-Life Ships

13 December 2013 | Press Release – Bangladesh Shipbreaking Still Dirty and Dangerous With at Least 20 Deaths in 2013

27 November 2013 | Platform News – Civil society organisations in Asia call for a global ban on asbestos, highlight dangers in shipbreaking

12 November 2013 | Platform News – Platform welcomes three Board Members and a new member organization at 2013 AGM

29 October 2013 | Press Release – New NGOs Report Calls on Pakistani Government to Improve Shipbreaking Industry

22 October 2013 | Press Release – EU Bans Breaking of Ships on Beaches

3 October 2013 | Press Release – NGOs call on South Asian countries to halt import of the damaged toxic vessel “Hansa Brandenburg”

2 October 2013 | Platform News – Industry stakeholders blame each other for the lack of safe and green ship recycling

24 July 2013 | Platform News – Green ship recycling in Europe: visit to renovated yard in Denmark

27 June 2013 | Press Release – NGOs Do Not Support Newly Approved EU Ship Recycling Regulation

13 June 2013 | Press Release – Shipping Industry’s Beach Dumping of Toxic Ships Revealed in New Online Database

30 May 2013 | Platform News – Opening of art and photo exhibition “Chittagong Blues & The Shipbreakers” in Brussels

2 May 2013 | SAVE THE DATE – Opening of the exhibition “Chittagong Blues & The shipbreakers”

18 April 2013 | Press Release – NGOs condemn the delay in establishing a European Ship recycling Fund until 2015

15 April 2013 | Press Release – NGOs call on EU Parliament to vote for ship recycling fund and off-the-beach stance

26 March 2013 | Press release – NGOs support EU Parliament Environment Committee call for ship recycling fund and off-the-beach stance

5 February 2013 | Press release – European Shipowners dumped 365 Toxic Ships on South Asian Beaches Last Year

22 January 2013 | Press Release – Green Ship Recycling: growing support in EU Parliament for financial mechanism

1 January 2013 | Press Release – Shipbreaking still causes deaths, accidents and illnesses

17 December 2012 | Press Release – EC Breaches International Law on Ship Recycling File, Independent Lawyers Say

27 November 2012 | Press Release – EU jeopardizes jobs by exporting end-of-life vessels: Industry calls to promote green ship recycling in Europe

23 November 2012 | Platform News – Platform visits Belgian ship recycling yard, boards French end-of-life ship

19 November 2012 | Press Release – Green Rapporteur’s Plan Against Dumping of Toxic Ships Denounced

14 November 2012 | Platform News – Member organisations convene in Brussels, meet EU representatives

13 November 2012 | Platform News – Joint publication of a position paper on ship recycling by the Platform and Greenpeace EU

5 November 2012 | Press Release – NGOs to EU: Don’t Dump your Toxic Ships in Developing Countries

25 October 2012 | Press Release – NGOs call on progressive EU governments to protect developing countries against hazardous shipbreaking waste

23 October 2012 | Media Alert – NGOs call on Bulgaria: don’t be an exporter of toxic ships

9 October 2012 | Media Alert – EU Commission Attempts to Legalize Export of Toxic Ships to Developing Countries

14 September 2012 | Media Alert – Shipbreaking continues to kill workers in Bangladesh

7 September 2012 | Media Alert – NGOs call on Germany: stop toxic ship before it reaches Alang graveyard

4 September 2012 | Platform News – Rizwana Hasan receives the Magsaysay Award for her fight for environmental justice

1 August 2012 | Media Alert – Exxon Valdez Prompts India’s Supreme Court to Blow Whistle on Toxic Shipbreaking Beaches

22 June 2012 | BAN Press Release: U.S. Ship Disposal Policy Called ‘Shameful’ following Export of ‘Exxon Valdez’ and ‘Delaware Trader’ to Indian Beaches

5 June 2012 | Platform News – The NGO Shipbreaking Platform to hire an Executive Director

26 March 2012 | Media alert – Toxic ship Exxon Valdez sent for dismantling

22 March 2012 | Media alert – NGO warns EU Ship Recycling proposal will not stop the dumping of toxic ships

23 February 2012 | Media alert – Groundbreaking ruling shows way forward for asbestos victims

16 January 2012 | Media Alert – NGO releases 2011 list of top EU companies sending toxic ships to South Asia

10 November 2011 | BAN Press release: Exxon Mobil Creates Green U.S. Jobs

11 October 2011 | Basel COP10: Developing Countries Say No to Toxic Ships

22 September 2011 | Platform welcomes two board members and a new member organisation

24 May 2011 | NGOs call on Bangladesh: Stop Death Ship Before it Kills Again

23 May 2011 | Platform board members meet in Norway, launch exhibit

16 May 2011 | Platform member offers springboard to green court for shipbreaking workers

13 May 2011 | Environmental NGO calls on Norway to reform its shipbreaking aid package for Bangladesh

10 March 2011 | Bangladesh to become ship graveyard if nothing is done

9 March 2011 | Bangladesh succumbs to shipping industry pressure

2 March 2011 | Pakistani foundation helping shipbreaking workers wins award

16 February 2011 | New Off The Beach website launched!

10 February 2011 | NGOs call on Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik to fix “broken” shipbreaking legislation

27 January 2011 | IMO funds training for shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh

23 January 2011 | «Help us get shipbreaking off the beach!» – 42 international organisations call on the Bangladeshi Prime Minister to act

19 January 2011 | Explosion kills at least 4 workers on a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh

12 December 2010 | 46 workers killed on the shipbreaking yards of South Asia this year

10 November 2010 | LIFE, new member organisation of Platform

4 November 2010 | BROKEN, an international photo exhibition

27 September 2010 | Trade Union Meetings in India and Bangladesh

26 September 2010 | Platform team goes to shipbreaking yards of Bangladesh

6 May 2010 | Finland Permits Illegal Export of Hazardous Waste

24 February 2010 | Bangladesh bans toxic ships

27 August 2009 | BAN PRESS RELEASE – Obama’s EPA allows toxic navy ships to be illegally dumped in Bangladesh

5 August 2009 | UK called upon to halt export Southampton toxic tanker

15 May 2009 | New “Ship Recycling” Convention Legalizes Scrapping Toxic Ships on Beaches of Poor Countries

11 May 2009 | I.M.O. ship recycling convention denounced as “legal shipwreck”

9 May 2009 | Congratulations to member Rizwana Hasan for winning the Goldman Prize 2009

17 March 2009 | Victory for Safe Jobs and the Environment

1 February 2009 | Platform Report – European ships sent to South Asia in 2009

20 November 2008 | The Captain needs to take the wheel

16 September 2008 | Children are breaking up the world fleet

21 May 2008 | The European Parliament calls for urgent action! Resolution on the Green Paper on Better Ship Dismantling

16 May 2008 | Otapan: Environmental Victory for Proper Ship Scrapping

20 March 2008 | BAN PRESS RELEASE: SS Oceanic: US EPA Sues Ship Broker for Illegal Export but Allows ‘Toxic Timebomb’ to Sail

12 September 2007 | Human Rights and Environmental Groups Condemn India for Callous Disregard for its Poorest Labourers and the Law after Shipbreaking Ruling

2 July 2007 | Government of Chile Urged Not to Dump Warships

27 May 2007 | EU proposes better ship dismantling

22 May 2007 | Well-begun but barely done: NGO Community Calls for Urgent Implementation of EU’s proposed Shipbreaking policy

4 December 2006 | Call to Indian government: send back the Blue Lady!

13 October 2006 | Draft IMO Treaty on Ship Scrapping Immoral

7 September 2006 | SS Norway: death and disease for Indian workers

25 August 2006 | Toxic Waste Ship Rejected: Turkey Closes Ports to “Dutch Clemenceau”

15 August 2006 | India ignores international law

12 August 2006 | MS OTAPAN – “the Dutch Clemenceau”: Environmental Activists Demand Netherlands to Recall Toxic Vessel

26 July 2006 | Cruise line called on to take responsibility for toxic cruise ship

30 June 2006 | Star Cruises deceived German autorities

16 May 2006 | Activists Welcome Clemenceau Back to France — Demand that Europe Clean or Recycle its Own Ships

12 May 2006 | India denies entry to asbestos ship SS Norway

2 May 2006 | Groups Say No to Toxic Ship Dumping at the Beaches of Bangladesh: Demand Return of Phased-Out Single Hulled Oil-Tanker

16 March 2006 | Draft I.M.O.treaty called “shockingly inadequate” in addressing global ship scrap crisis

 

 

 

OUR OFF THE BEACH BLOG POSTS

 

3 May 2016 | Spike in the number of decommissioned vessels related to the oil and gas industry

27 January 2016 | German ship fund Norddeutsche Vermögen continues to exploit substandard shipbreaking to maximise profits – clear contradiction to company’s values

12 January 2016 | Danish ship owner Clipper Group has adopted a ship recycling policy which refers to requirements under the EU Ship Recycling Regulation

17 December 2015 | Recycling of marine-based structures: Maersk Drilling opts for China

8 December 2015 | ABN Amro and Grieg Green team up for sustainable ship recycling OFF THE BEACH

16 November 2015 | NGO Shipbreaking Platform calls on Italian owners to stop beaching their toxic ships

30 September 2015 | CSL’s ships on their way to Aliağa

8 September 2015 | NGOs write to Polsteam calling on the Polish state-owned company to stop beaching

20 August 2015 | Norwegian Shipowners’ Association Says No to Beaching Old Vessels

15 April 2015 | NGO Shipbreaking Platform works hand in hand with Dutch ship owner Boskalis for sustainable ship recycling in Mexico

2 April 2015 | 32 Multinational Companies Say ‘No’ to Dirty and Dangerous Shipbreaking

19 March 2015 | Behind the price tag

16 January 2015 | Danish shipping company’s decision to sell ship to India highlights misconceptions about “green ship recycling”

2 September 2014 | Hapag-Lloyd joins growing crowd of responsible recyclers

9 April 2014 | Shipbreaking workers die dismantling ships owned by Teekay, NOL and FESCO

19 February 2014 | Dutch and Canadian companies amongst progressive shipowners

3 February 2014 | Greece and Germany top EU list of worst global dumpers for 2013

18 June 2013 | Maersk’s ship recycling policy: assets and drawbacks

13 June 2013 | CSL Group decides for ship recycling off the beach

13 June 2013 | Boskalis commits to clean and safe ship recycling

 

 

 

MEET THE PEOPLE

 

During their visits of the shipbreaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform staff met with the people working in one of the most dangerous industries in the world. Read their story.