Subscribe to RSS feedScrapping over the human cost of beaching demolition
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Justin Stares
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Oct 29, 2009 03:42 PM
Shipowners are trying to sink a European Commission tax plan to fund improved working conditions at breakers’ yards on the Indian subcontinent. Is their opposition justified and will they get their way? Justin Stares reports
AS WITH most Brussels policy debates, the current shipbreaking conundrum can be boiled down to one basic question: who is going to pay?
The European Commission wants to create a shipbreaking fund financed by a port ‘levy’ on ships...
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