Shipowners call for single global rulebook on recycling

European and global shipowners have called for closer alignment between EU and international ship recycling rules, warning that diverging standards risk complicating the sector just as the new global framework begins to take hold.

A new independent study, commissioned by European Shipowners | ECSA and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), examines the differences between the EU Ship Recycling Regulation and the International Maritime Organization’s Hong Kong Convention, which entered...