Crowley Maritime Corporation has become the first US-owned and that will publicly disclose its ship recycling policies, practices and process through the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (STRI).

The robust recycling prices of recent weeks have not fallen significantly so far, but signs of easing steel prices and pandemic disruption could have an effect as the monsoon months loom closer.

Firm demolition prices have stayed in place over the first half of March, with steel plate prices in Bangladesh reaching their highest prices so far this year, with rising levels of recycling predicted this year.

The recycling market has begun 2021 in strong form, with rising demand for steel pushing up prices and recycling yards keen to procure more tonnage.

Maersk Drilling will decommission an elderly rig built in 1984 and recycle it at China’s Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling.

Handling deepsea and shortsea services, the Port of Tilbury has long been one of the UK’s major container ports in volume terms. But that is only half the story. Tilbury, which is owned by Forth Ports, also handles ro-ro, new vehicles, paper and...

The International Ship Recycling Association (ISRA) and NGO Shipbreaking Platform have called for immediate action to improve safety at shipbreaking beaches following four deaths at a Chittagong yard earlier this month.