Although tanker scrapping revived in the past twelve months, recycling activity within the world merchant ship fleet has been generally subdued in recent years. But signs point to much larger future volumes of vessels being consigned to shipbreakers’ yards. Shipowners have been reluctant to send old or uneconomical vessels to the breakers’ yards in the …
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