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

Ship Recycling Treaty was adopted in Hong Kong in May 15th 2009. We will introduce the outline, the sequence of events to adaptation, the current situation and expectation towards the implementation of ship recycling treaty.

Ship Recycling Treaty includes obligation rules to minimize the labor accidents and environmental pollution.

Inventory is the list of hazardous materials contained in ship’s structure or equipment, their location and approximate quantities.

The purpose of creating inventory is to verify the existence of hazardous materials in ships, so it is possible to ensure the following goals.

Three goals mentioned above are achieved.

Dec 2002	UNEP(International Environmental Plan: the Basel Convention) issued the ship recycling technology guidelines.
Oct 2003	ILO(International Labor Office) issued the ship recycling safety guidelines.
Dec 2003	IMO(International Maritime Organization) issued the ship recycling guidelines.
2005	Groundwork for new treaty was decided at 24th IMO general meeting
Oct 2008	Draft of a ship recycling treaty was approved at MEPC58.
May 15th 2009	The Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships was adopted.(konown as Ship Recycling Treaty)
2012	The treaty goes into effect, and domestic legislation will be approved.

Implementation Requisite	Expectation
Over 15 countries needs to be agreed.	The requisite is satisfied due to the agreement of the countries of the EU(27 countries).