Ship breaking at Anang Beach, Mumbai, India
Excerpts from the Copenhagen Post:
The Danish shipping giant Maersk Line has been accused by a NGO of not living up to its own ethical guidelines when it comes to the scrapping of its ships.
Last year, three former Maersk ships were scrapped at Alang Beach near Mumbai, India, by impoverished migrant workers in dangerous conditions.
In 2011, Maersk sold the ships to a Greek shipping company, Diana Shipping, and then chartered them back for two years. Diana Shipping then sent the ships to be scrapped at Alang Beach when the contract expired.
“And that means that Maersk is in conflict with its own ethical guidelines that state the company’s ships must be scrapped responsibly,” Patrizia Heidegger, the head of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, told DR Nyheder.