Subscribe to RSS feedBangladesh deaths spark renewed calls to end beached shipbreaking
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Justin Stares, Brussels
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Oct 22, 2009 03:30 PM
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,” Ingvild Jenssen of the Brussels-based Platform on Shipbreaking, a coalition of lobby groups, said.
“In our view, unless the operations are moved off the beach there is no way to...
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