With two months to go before the European regulation on the recycling of ships takes effect, Martin Dorsman, the secretary general of the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA), said that the EU could spearhead the increase in environmental requirements and improved working conditions in shipyards, across the world.
Dorsman thus spoke of a “dynamic process” that has been ongoing for three years now. For ECSA, this improvement is the result of having adopted the 2013...