ASF Ship Recycling Committee (SRC) has declared its opposition to the proposed European Union regulation on scrapping ships

The Italian government has approved a plan to move the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship to the closest port, where it will be disassembled.

BUYER demand for ship breaking continues to accelerate among Chinese shipbreakers with rates per scrap light displacement tonnage (ldt) - being the weight of the ship - hitting pre-lunar new year levels

A record-breaking number of 365 ships were sent for breaking by European shipowners to the beaches of South Asia in 2012.

The world's largest concrete ship has been dismantled after spending four decades stranded on the riverbank.

Former Cunard flagship The QE2 is set to be sold to the Chinese for scrap for £20 million after a bid to bring it back to the UK as a five-star floating hotel failed.

ClassNK issues world’s first statement of compliance for a ship recycling facility to Jiangmen Zhongxin Shipbreaking & Steel Co.

In a letter mailed to the Brussels-based Environment attachés of all 27 Member States, environmental groups have denounced a proposal by the European Commission on ship recycling to legalize the export of hazardous end-of-life ships to developing countries.

Shipping companies are demolishing their vessels at an unprecedented rate this year, hoping to eliminate some capacity to cushion the impact of a flood of newly built ships entering the market.