Human Rights Watch and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform have put the South Asian ship-recycling sector in its crosshairs once again.
Bangladesh was the target of a 90-page report released on Thursday that lambasts shipowners in Europe for selling their old ships to cash buyers who then resell them to substandard ship-recycling facilities in Chattogram.
The publication of Trading Lives for Profit sends a warning to shipowners that despite recent victories such as the ratification of the The Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, NGOs are still keeping a watchful eye over the subcontinent ship-recycling sector and are not afraid...
