Ships and marine technology — Ship recycling management systems — Guidelines for selection of ship recyclers (and pro forma contract)

This International Standard provides guidance to shipowners in the selection of a ship recycling facility.

In order to ensure as far as possible that vessels are recycled in a safe and environmentally sound manner,

shipowners need to consider to which ship recycling facilities they wish to sell their ships, and it is therefore

important that ship recycling facilities provide certain objective information to assist in this selection process.

Ship recycling facilities that are unwilling to provide this information on request by the shipowner cannot

be objectively assessed.

Since the shipowner might not be able to verify the information given, it is the sole responsibility of the ship

recycling facilities to ensure that such information is correct. However, it is important that shipowners be critical

in their consideration of any such information, and aware that some facilities might publish obviously false

information or give contradictory data that make it apparent that the information supplied does not reflect

reality. In such cases the facilities cannot be objectively assessed.

It applies to the process of selecting a ship recycling facility and the use of a pro forma c