LR advises on ship recycling

Speaking at the Ship Recycling Forum in Dubai yesterday (January 19), Lloyd’s Register?s Robin Townsend explained to delegates just how the new standard for ship recycling, ISO 30000, can help meet the challenges facing the ship demolition industry once the new IMO International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships comes into force.

The forum, chaired by Nikos Mikelis, Senior Implementation Officer with the IMO?s Marine Environment Division was held to assess the impact of the IMO convention on shipowners, shipbuilders and maritime suppliers, ship recyclers, and governments and administrations.

Townsend told the forum it was important for the industry to understand how ISO 30000 could work along side the IMO recycling convention after the convention?s adoption and entry into force. That process is now far advanced. The final draft of the IMO?s recycling convention was approved at MEPC 58 in October 2008, and is now due to be adopted at the IMO diplomatic conference in Hong Kong in May 2009.