ACQUIRING A VESSEL

Every year the number of ships for scrap increases. It is estimated that by 2010, 3000 ships per year will be scrapped. Each one broken to pieces on the beaches of developing Asian countries. Polluting the environment. Threatening the health and life of the workers.
Greenpeace and other environmental organisations are placing pressure on the shipping industry to stop contaminating Asian shipyards with their toxic, ’end-of-life’ vessels. They have proposed regulations which will make it more and more difficult for ship owners to sell their ships for scrap without decontaminating them before export to Asia. This could be a costly process, and one that ship owners may not wish to undertake.

This is where we come in. We could offer a service to ship owners where we would take the toxic ships off their hands at a very cheap rate, and perform the decontamination process ourselves. We would then have a clean ship, ready for conversion into the floating desalination plant.

There is currently a project undertaken by Greenpeace which has put 50 ships in the global spotlight. These are toxic vessels that are likely to be scrapped in the next 5 years. Greenpeace are monitoring these ships to make sure they are decontaminated before export, and are asking ship owners to declare the safety of their vessel before it is sent away for scrap. If it is declared safe, the ship will be taken off the list, but it will be replaced by another vessel whose owner has not declared an intention to decontaminate.

These 50 black listed vessels are our primary target!

Future ships will most likely be built with restrictions on the types of materials used. However, for old ships that are nearing scrap stage, our company could provide an attractive service for ship owners.

There is also the possibility of working with NGO’s and other organizations to acquire funding. They may be interested in supporting a business that is creating a new environmentally responsible and sustainable product.

Read : SHIPBREAKING http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbreak/imo.asp