July 2010 , The 20th delivery of Shipbreaking.com Robin des Bois's editorial success devoted to the scrapping of vessels is on Robin des Bois's internet newsstand. This initiative is entirely funded by Robin des Bois.
Bangladesh is a signatory; and also has accessed to the Basel convention in April 01, 1993. In the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1997, hazardous waste has been defined.
On 5 October 2009 the GreenDock team visited the Chittagong ship breaking yards.
On our flight from Dhaka to Chittagong we flew over the area where the ships were dismantled/broken apart, as you can see on the picture below the sea is polluted over a great area with oil and chemicals.
(PDF) Cruiseschepen entertainen duizenden mensen per vaart. En monsters van staal varen volgeladen met containers over woeste oceanen. Maar wat doen we met deze reusachtige vaartuigen als hun leven voorbij is?
The IMO conference is called a great success due to the fact that 66 countries signed a new treaty to make ship-breaking safer, but it is not going to really change the way ships are being dismantled says Henk Beekhuis Project Manger from Greendock, an organization who is on the way to build their first Greendock 0-pollution ship-dismantling yard in Cambodia.
Marine Environment Protection Committee, 6 to 10 October 2008
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) approved the text of the draft ship recycling convention for adoption at a conference in 2009, when it met for its 58th session at IMO's London headquarters.
September 10th 2008
Within the framework of adapting the fishing fleet to the European policy, hundreds of boats will be demolished in France from now until the end of the year. Each owner receives a substantial compensation bonus from the European Union and the French State which could reach up to 600,000 €.
According to informations coming from Chittagong, three container ships managed by German companies have just been put on sale on the demolition market. These three vessels are the joint property of KGAL, based in Germany, the largest European maritime leasing* company, and subsidiary of Allianz and Dresdner Bank, and of V Ships Germany, subsidiary of V Ships Monaco, the largest manager of commerce vessels in the world.
Robindesbois.org - April 21st, 2008
What approach should a responsible society take to ship dismantling? The current practice of beaching scrap vessels in poor Asian countries and letting the local population take care of the dirty and dangerous demolition work does not belong in the twenty-first century. So two Dutch entrepreneurs have devised the GreenDock®: a concept that enables ships to be demolished in a way that is environmentally friendly, safe and commercially viable. GLOBALContact - MARCH 2008
Signing the MoU in Thailand December 2007: Cooperating Partners in Thailand with the Vice Ambassador of the Netherlands in Thailand .
Jiangmen Zhongxin Ship Recycling, China November 2007: After fullfilling the obligations mentioned in the MOU, signed on the 21st of June 2007 between Jiangmen Zhongxin Ship Recycling& Steel Co.Ltd. and Greendock BV., a new step forward with signing a LOI on the 26th of November 2007, is taken.
eemshaven - Ecodock is definitief ter ziele. Dat is niet helemaal een verrassing, want het initiatief voor een sloopwerf in de Eemshaven leed al enige tijd een kwakkelend bestaan. Een der schuldeisers heeft de stekker er nu uitgetrokken door het bankroet aan te vragen.
Na enkele maanden van onderhandeling zijn de overeenkomsten voor de financiering van NV Ecodock’s eerste scheepsontmantelingswerf getekend. De 64 miljoen kostende werf zal worden gebouwd in de Eemshaven en is daarmee ’s werelds eerste milieuvriendelijke werf voor het ontmantelen van schepen, platforms en overige maritieme vaartuigen. De werf in de Eemshaven zal in eerste instantie werk bieden aan circa 100 mensen.
After several months of negotiation, the agreements for the funding of NV Ecodock’s first ship dismantling yard have been signed. The 64 million euro yard will be built in Eemshaven and will therefore be the world’s first environmentally-friendly yard for the dismantling of ships, platforms and other maritime vessels. The yard in Eemshaven will initially provide work for around 100 people.
De ministeries van VROM en Verkeer en Waterstaat (V&W) en de gemeente Amsterdam (het Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf) hebben Amsterdam Ship Repair en Ecodock opdracht gegeven voor de ontmanteling van de Sandrien. Met deze unieke opdracht wordt een halt toegeroepen aan de huidige milieuonvriendelijke sloop van schepen.
The Netherlands Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (V&W) and the City of Amsterdam (the Amsterdam Port Authority) have awarded Amsterdam Ship Repair and Ecodock the contract for dismantling the Sandrien. This unique contract brings the current environmentally harmful approach to the dismantling of ships to a stop.
