EU Ship Recycling Outsourced to South Asian Beaches Despite Homegrown Capacity, Report Finds
A new study by NGO Shipbreaking Platform and T&E reveals that between 2019 and 2025, only 5% of EU-owned or flagged ship tonnage was dismantled in Europe, while nearly half was beached in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The report argues the EU has enough domestic recycling capacity to handle all its end-of-life vessels, but shipowners evade regulations, exporting valuable steel and causing environmental contamination and unsafe working conditions abroad. The practice of beaching leads to hazardous material discharge and ground and water pollution, highlighting a failure of EU industrial strategy and waste shipment rules.
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The report documents that between 2019 and 2025, 706 EU-linked vessels were scrapped globally, with EU
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