Platform publishes list of ships dismantled worldwide in 2017 - @NGOShipbreaking - 0 views
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Jérôme OLLIER on 28 Feb 18According to new data released today by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, 835 large ocean-going commercial vessels were sold to the scrap yards in 2017. 543 were broken down - by hand - on the tidal beaches of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: amounting to 80,3% of all tonnage dismantled globally.