Story Story of Ship Recycling

1. Our lives are supported by ships.
2. Current State of Ship Recycling
3. End-of-life Ships are not “Wastes”, they are “Resources”.
4. Problems with local environmental pollution and incidents of worker injury and fatality in the ship-breaking yards.
5. Change Ship Recycling!
6. Enacting Ship Recycling Treaty which includes obligation rules to minimize the labor accidents and environmental pollution is urgently needed.
7. Japan as Shipbuilder and Fleet Owner
8. Change the world seas from the Muroran Ship Recycling Study Group

The number of marine transport in the world has been gradually increased.
Materials of industrial products such as ironstone and oil, as well as things made of food, clothing, and housing, are carried by ships.
(99.7% of imported goods are transported by ships. ※the ratio based on weight)

Regarding the category of “clothing”, not only cotton, wool, and materials of chemical fiber, but also tons of clothing products are transported by ships.
Regarding the category of “food”, wheat, soy, and corn for livestock are transported by ships.
Regarding the category of “housing”, construction materials are included.

It is said that air freight is seven to ten times greater ocean freight.
It is not too much to say that our stable lives are supported by ships.