8 results "beaching"
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News 20/10-2016Danish shipping giant caught beaching ships in India and Bangladesh
Shipping conglomerate Maersk said on Monday it was striving to improve workers’ rights at shipbreaking yards it uses in India after criticisms of hazardous conditions were leveled at it in the Danish Media.
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News 17/08-2015Norwegian Shipowners to stop beaching
In an op-ed in Dagens Næringsliv, the largest daily business paper in Norway, Norwegian Shipowners Association and their CEO Sturla Henriksen say a definite NO to shipbreaking on beaches. -This is a major victory for Bellona and all other NGOs fighting against dangerous dismantling of ships, Bellona advisor Sigurd Enge said.
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News 14/06-2013
Bellona and other NGOs naming and blaming shipowners for beaching vessels on South Asian
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform yesterday went online with a new website tracking ships that have been sent for environmentally unsound breaking on South Asian beaches, and allowing easier tracking of companies and nations that essentially abandon derelict vessels to substandard dismantling facilities on the shores of the developing world.
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News 20/04-2016Debates over Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths end as federal reports single out BP as the culprit
NEW ORLEANS – On this, the sixth anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the body count among sea mammals is still rising and has been caused by oil.
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News 08/03-2015Five years after BP blowout, Florida’s oil and health problems evade national attention
CAT POINT, Florida – It’s almost five years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout and Bellona’s Karl Kristensen and I have just struck oil on a beach in Cat Point, Florida – a state whose post-spill wounds have gone untreated for too long.
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News 26/01-2015Fewer ships scrapped on Asia’s beaches
2014 saw great improvement, but still five Norwegian shipowners send ships for scrapping on Indian beaches.
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News 06/02-2014Twenty-one ships with ties to Norway dumped on beaches in 2013
A total of 40 ships previously owned or controlled by Norwegian interests were recycled in 2013, of which 21 were beached in Pakistan, India or Bangladesh, areas that are characterized by extremely dangerous working conditions and significant environmental exposure to asbestos, heavy metals and Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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