Development of ship-specific recycling plan to improve health safety and environment in ship recycling yards

It was observed that bulk carrier, general cargo and container ships were broken in a similar manner. There are certain limitations with respect to the number of workers that could be engaged and size of the ship that could be beached in a given yard for recycling resulting from the physical size of the yard and fluctuations in the price of steel in international market. It was articulated that, on an average, 1.762 ± 0.026 man days would be required to dismantle one LDT of a given ship. The number of man days required for complete recycling of a given type of ship can indeed be used as the most important parameter while developing and planning for recycling of a given ship. The ship-specific recycling plan, what-if-analysis and wastes inventory developed in this research will further strengthen the three-step risk assessment method. Also, it is hoped that the results of this research will play a major role in fulfilling the legal obligations and eventually help in achieving the safe and environmentally sound ship recycling as desired by HKC and newly passed EU legislation.