
One of the world’s largest container shipping companies, Switzerland’s Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has been put under the spotlight for its “substandard and hazardous” dismantling of obsolete vessels on tidal beaches in South Asia, the Belgium-based NGO Shipbreaking Platform has stressed.

The Parliament of Finland has approved a bill that prohibits the discharge of wastewater from cargo vessels into the Baltic Sea within the country’s territorial waters.