Lucion Marine website launch

The Lucion Marine website that is packed with information about Green Passports for ships is going to be launched next week.

Green Passports for ships, or given their more formal title, Inventory of Hazardous Materials are designed to help prevent ships from being broken up for recycling without first having all of the contaminants (asbestos, PCBs, heavy metals etc) removed and disposed of correctly.

Greenpeace have been campaigning to stop ships being beached on beaches in China and India and then taken apart with little or no regard for the impact on the environment or their workers health.

For more information on ship recycling from Greenpeace visit their website at http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/Shipbreak/bangladesh.asp and for more information about Green Passports for ships, visit www.greenpassport.net next week.

Green Passports for Ships

The IMO (International Maritime Organisation) has agreed that there should be controls over the dismantling of ships and how the contaminants should be dealt with in a safe manner to protect the environment and workers.

The new "Green Passport" for ships will facilitate this by logging all of the hazardous materials utilised on ships. Examples are asbestos (lagging ad gaskets), CFCs (used in refridgeration etc), TBCs (dioxins) and ODC (ozone depleting compounds). A "single list" of these hazardous materials will accompany the vessel until it is recycled by a licenced ship recycling yard.

Lucion is one of the only companies that has already carried out complete Inventory of Hazardous Material surveys and delivered a complete reports to their client on vessels due to be recycled.

For more information visit our website.