Subscribe to RSS feedEfforts fail to halt dangerous shipbreaking
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Justin Stares - Lloyd's List
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Oct 20, 2009 11:56 AM
European lobby groups have renewed calls for shipbreaking to be moved off the beaches of the Indian subcontinent, after seven fatal accidents were reported in Bangladesh in four weeks.
“The last few weeks have been terrible in Chittagong,” Platform on Shipbreaking's Ingvild Jenssen said.
“In our view, unless the operations are moved off the beach, there is no way to stop deadly accidents and pollution of sensitive coastal zones.”
Bangladeshi newspaper...
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