Ship Recycling

Our aim to find opportunities to recycle steel from sustainable ship recycling. The need for recycled steel in Finland is more than 1 million tons yearly. 

Ship recycling is one of our main sustainable development areas. We work in strong collaboration with Finnish industry players and experts from India to develop a sustainable ship recycling system

Significant development steps started in ship recycling

The collaboration between India and Finland has started on investigating the possibilities of ship recycling. The project is sponsored by Turku Repair Yard Ltd, Machine Technology Center, Turku, and Delete Finland Oy.

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First cruiser demolished

First cruiser was demolished in Finland

An old freshwater cruiser “Blue White Eagle” (built 1960) was demolished at Turku Repair Yard in October 2017 as a pilot project in a ground of Ship recycling project in Finland.

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Ship dismantling as recycling and waste management issue

EU regulation limits end-of-life ship export to developing countries for dismantling and recycling due to environmental, health and safety problems. Ship dismantling has been done traditionally with low technology and lots of manual work.

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Articles

November 29, 2022

Ship recycling consortium was established in Finland

This is the first significant alliance in ship recycling operating in a global environment.

February 23, 2021

Ship dismantling as recycling and waste management issue

EU regulation limits end-of-life ship export to developing countries for dismantling and recycling environmental problems and safety and health problems.

May 9, 2018

First cruiser was demolished in Finland

An old freshwater cruiser “Blue White Eagle” (built 1960) was demolished at Turku Repair Yard in 2017.

November 23, 2015

Master's thesis on ship recycling in Finland

Katalin Talas, master's student from the University of Jyväskylä MBA Program of Corporate Environmental Management published a deep analysis of the opportunities and risks of establishing sustainable ship recycling in Finland

December 13, 2013

Laboratory of Intelligent Machines and Robotic Scenarios in Ship Recycling

Professor, D.Sc (Tech), Heikki Handroos Department of Mechanical Engineering

October 11, 2012

Significant development steps started in ship recycling

The collaboration between India and Finland has started on investigating the possibilities of ship recycling.

August 20, 2011

The future of recycling large vessel structures

Possible cooperation partners for different areas

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