Belgium
- NV Galloo Recycling Ghent
Denmark
- Fayard
- Fornaes Ship Recycling
- Modern American Recycling Services Europe
- Smedegaarden
- Stena Recycling
Estonia
- BLRT Refonda Baltic OU
Spain
- DDR Vessels
France
- Demonaval Recycling
- Gardet et De Bezenac Recycling/Groupe Baudelet Environment
- Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux
- Les Recycleurs Bretons
Italy
- San Giorgio del Porto
Latvia
- Tosmares Kugubuvetava
Lithuania
- UAB APK
- UAB Armar
- UAB Vakaru Refonda
Netherlands
- Keppel-Verolme
- Scheepssloperij Nederland
Norway
- AF Offshore Decom
- Green Yard
- Kvaerner (Stord)
- Lutelandet Industrihamn
- Norscrap West
Portugal
- Navalria
Finland
- Turku Repair Yard
UK
- Able UK
- Dales Marine Services
- Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries
- Swansea Drydocks
Third countries:
Turkey
- Isiksan Gemi Sokum Pazarlama Ve Tic
- Leyal Gemi Sokum Sanayi ve Ticaret
- Leyal-Demtas Gemi Sokum Sanayi ve Ticaret
US
- International Shipbreaking
Piombino Maritime Industries, a new shipyard in Piombino in central Italy, is ready to begin operations in September after being given the green light from Italy's environmental authorities, say senior management.
The facility is backed by Genoa-based shipyard San Giorgio del Porto (SGdP) and maritime services provider Neri Group.
The expectation is that the recycling facility will complement SGdP, which remains the only ship-dismantling centre in Italy to be approved by the European Commission.
Piombino Maritime managing director Valerio Mulas explained that the Piombino facility is expected to begin operations in a couple of months.
He said it would initially undergo work on naval or state-owned vessels, which are excluded from European rules on ship scrapping.
But he added that the yard wants to obtain work from third-party shipowners, so efforts will be made to include Piombino Maritime on the list of EC-approved yards.
Ambitions
He said Piombino Maritime hopes to join SGdP in belonging to the handful of shipyards in the Mediterranean that the EC has given clearance for environmentally-safe ship demolition. The other three yards are based in Aliaga, Turkey.
Piombino Maritime will comprise 400 linear metres of equipped quays and a dismantling platform of more than 1,200 square metres.
SGdP has been dismantling the wreck of the 114,000-gt cruiseship Costa Concordia (built 2006), which was done in four stages between July 2014 and July 2017.
The establishment of a second recycling shipyard in Italy comes after calls by the country's shipowners' association — Confitarma — for more European-approved ship-scrapping sites.
Confitarma spokesman Fabio Faraone told a conference in Genoa last month that global regulation was necessary to avoid the distortion of competition in the shiprecycling sector.
He backed the position of the European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA), which is calling for the global ratification of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (Hong Kong Convention).
"The Hong Kong Convention is the only applicable international instrument capable of providing meaningful regulation for the development of sustainable global recycling facilities," he said.
He added that it is important that European Union member states collaborate with the EC.
So far, the EC has approved 34 facilities for shiprecycling, after recently adding eight more yards to the list.
In a separate speech during Genoa Shipping Week, Confitarma chairman Mario Mattioli lamented the difficulty of doing business in Italy due to “an obsolete bureaucratic system”.
“In Italy, it is becoming more and more difficult to attract foreign investment above all due to very high bureaucratic costs,” he said.
