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Aspects in Mining & Mineral Science

The South Asian Shipbreaking Industry and its Unsafe Mining Practices

  • Open or CloseMohammad Zulfikar Ali1 and Prafula Pearce2*

    1PhD in Law Candidate, Curtin Law School, Perth, Australia

    2Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

    *Corresponding author: Prafula Pearce, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Submission: May 15, 2020; Published: June 30, 2020

DOI: 10.31031/AMMS.2020.05.000607

ISSN : 2578-0255
Volume5 Issue2

Abstract

In the last two decades, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have been the market leaders for breaking ships1. Before 2000, developed countries had their own shipbreaking industries. Due to risks involved in the process and the high level of safety standards under their established laws, it became too expensive to retain the shipbreaking industry in the developed countries. By the end of 20th century, shipbreaking was gradually shifted mainly to Turkey, China, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan2. At present, China and Turkey have higher shipbreaking costs than South Asia and therefore Turkey and China have not been the preferred destinations for the last ten years.

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