Why developing countries dominate ship recycling

摘要

Steelmakers are very important to ship recyclers but the reverse does not apply to the same extent, ShipRec delegates were told by Dr Nikos Mikelis, former head of the International Maritime Organization's ship recycling section. China accounts for almost-half of global steel production, while two of the other big five ship recyclers - India andTurkey-were, respectively, fourth and eighth on last year's steel producer list. Countries that have invested heavily in large integrated plants for producing steel from virgin ore may be more reluctant to switch to the scrap-hungry electric arc furnace route, Dr Mikelis said.The share of EAF production in China's steelmaking is just 10% compared with 60% in India and 75% in Turkey.