German shipowners scrapped 98% of all their ships sent for demolition in South Asia in 2016, a recycling lobby group has claimed.
“German owners, banks and ship funds had a staggering 98 ships rammed up on the beaches of South Asia out of a total of 100 vessels sold for demolition,” said the NGO Shipbreaking Platform.
The Brussels-based group claims that around 40% of those ships were broken up in Bangladesh where it said “conditions are known to be the worst”.
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