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Greenpeace has called on European regulators to create a transparent and
definitive database of EU-linked single-hull tankers subject to phase-out
regulations, in order to ensure that the shipping industry complies with the
rules.
In a new report to be released today, the environmental group claims that
the maritime industry's "well known" lack of transparency creates "a
critical gap" between implementation and enforcement of the phase-out
scheme.
The report contains a list of 334 vessels flagged in EU states (including
Norway and Switzerland), or controlled by companies in those countries,
which Greenpeace says will be due for retirement in 2005.
At a global level, the group estimates that as many as 1,119 tankers will
have to be scrapped by the end of 2005, a figure that potentially includes
ships that should have been removed already. |
