Spain has signed on to the Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.
The country has become the 17th to sign up to the International Maritime Organization treaty aimed at ensuring that when ships are scrapped it is done so without endangering health, safety or the environment.
Spain's alternative permanent representative to the IMO, Victor Jimenez Fernandez, met with secretary general Kitach Lim on 3 June to deposit the instrument of accession, the United Nations body said on Monday.
