In-depth
Extracts from China’s Green Ship Recycling cut when dismantling oil containers; moisturised asbestos
General Regulation. parts before dismantling and prevent dropping asbestos
parts from high altitude to the ground etc.
1 principle requirements (Section 4.1) 5 Solid waste processing requirements (Section 4.5)
• Encourage dismantling alongside wharf and in boatyard; • Specify special procedures for handling batteries,
eliminate dismantling vessel on beach asbestos, electric wires, inflammable materials, polluted
• Import of vessels to comply with the Basel Convention soil etc.
on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous
Wastes and Their Disposal 6 Sound pollution requirements (Section 4.6)
2 Basic requirements on environment management (Section 7 Safe operation requirements (Section 5)
4.2) • Specify regular check-up items and the safety
• Ship recyclers are to receive information including procedures shipbreaking yards should adopt in different
major function of the ships, if the ship contains radioactive circumstances, such as during naked-fire operation or
materials and a manifest of the quantity and location of typhoon.
solid waste and dangerous materials on board the vessels.
• Separate operation districts for different procedures: a 8 Staff health – principle requirements (Section 6.1)
basic area for dismantling where the whole ship is broken • Specify the basic protection equipment for the crew
into large sections; and a second area for dismantling • Annual physical examination for every crew members
those large sections, separate storage area and waste
processing area etc. 9 Staff health requirements – for asbestos processing crew
• Records of vessel information, breaking procedures, (Section 6.2)
wastes, environmental monitoring investigations to be • Special training, annual lung X-ray, separated shower
kept for at least three years. facilities and protection equipment, e.g. mask, are to be
• Annual environment monitoring investigations to be provided for asbestos processing staff
carried out under supervision of the government.
10 Staff health requirements – for cutting crew (Section 6.3)
3 Water pollution requirements (Section 4.3) • Specify protection equipment, e.g. goggles
• Specify geographical districts where no ship dismantling • Annual blood and urine lead test provided for cutting
facilities are to be built crew. Those with blood lead level over 60ug/ml or urine
• Companies are to process liquid wastes, e.g. oil, polluted lead level over 100ug/ml are to be transferred to other
water or mud etc., until it is up to the standard required operation units.
before disposal; to install oil boom when dismantling in
water; and to install facilities to prevent rain water to wash 11 Staff health requirements – a contingency plan is
pollutants away from the yard etc. required (Section 6.4)
4 Air pollution requirements (Section 4.4) 12 general management requirements (Section 7)
• Ship recyclers should try to prevent explosion; use cryo • Computerisation etc.
drydock and pier side breaking in the pilot the convention will raise the international Jiangmen Yinhu is a more efficient way to deal
scheme. recognition of our yard and help us to be with the accumulation of gas in oil tankers.
Nie Hu Hui, manager of the international more competitive,” he added. “What we are doing now is to ventilate the
ship breaking department of Jiangmen Both Mr Xie and Mr Nie agreed vessel and use an explosimeter to test if it
Yinhu Ship breaking Co Ltd, a major that refrigerated cargo vessels and fish would be dangerous to operate with naked
ship recycling yard in southern China processing vessels are the most difficult to fire. But, this is time consuming and difficult
serving mainly foreign shipowners, said handle as they often contain more insulating to guarantee a safe result.”
the yard will have to alter its current ship materials which can be dangerous and At the moment, overseas shipowners are
dismantling sequence to comply with the cement which is often unrecyclable. It takes the major clients for Chinese ship breakers,
convention. Higher investment on staff up more man hours and requires more according to Mr Xie, but domestic business
training and equipment advancement are equipment to dismantle those ships. has picked up in recent years, as more than
also required. Mr Nie also mentioned that the most 35% of the China-flagged vessels are more
“But at the same time compliance to urgently needed technical breakthrough for than 25 years old. NA
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