Mere months remain before the International Maritime Organization’s Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships goes into force next June.

As the race for compliance enters the final stretch, 225 shipping and recycling sector stakeholders gathered in Copenhagen last week to take stock of what still needs to be done by the deadline.

They were in the Danish capital for TradeWinds’ annual ship recycling forum, which was held in the city’s historic Axelborg Hall.