Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling

Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling *

Inventory of Potentially Hazardous Materials on Board *

In co-operation with other industry organisations, ICS has produced an Industry Code of Practice on Ship Recycling, outlining the measures that shipowners should be prepared to take prior to disposing of redundant ships.

The Code is a concerted response to concerns that have been raised about the working and environmental conditions present in some of the world's ship recycling facilities, most of which are located in developing countries. 

The Code incorporates the Inventory of Potentially Hazardous Materials on Board that was produced by the industry earlier this year and which has since been approved by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee. 

Copies are available via national shipowners' associations, or can be downloaded and printed from this site, by selecting the links above.

* The inventory and code have been created as PDFs. To view them you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free from the Acrobat Reader website.

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