Risk Focus: Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) A guide for shipowners to ensure compliance with ship recycling legislation - UK P & I Club [2020, PDF]

Risk Focus: Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) A guide for shipowners to ensure compliance with ship recycling legislation

Year: 2020
Language: english
Author: UK P & I Club
Genre: Guide
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 9
Description: The guidelines provided advice to all stakeholders in the recycling process, including administrations of ship building and maritime equipment supplying countries, flag, port and recycling States, and commercial bodies such as shipowners, ship builders, and recycling yards.
The guidelines noted that, in the process of recycling ships, virtually nothing goes to waste. The materials and equipment are almost entirely reused. Steel is reprocessed to become, for instance, reinforcing rods for use in the construction industry or as corner castings and hinges for containers. Ships’ generators are reused ashore. Batteries find their way into the local economy. Hydrocarbons on board become reclaimed
oil products to be used as fuel in rolling mills or brick kilns.
Light fittings find further use on land. Furthermore, new steel production from recycled steel requires only one third of the energy used for steel production from raw materials. Recycling thus makes a positive contribution to the global conservation of energy and resources and, in the process, employs a large, if predominantly unskilled, workforce.