[Milsurplus] Shipbreaking stats 2016

[Hubert Miller]

As a surplus hound from way back, I've always been interested also in photos and stories of junked ships and planes
and maybe tanks. Anyway I was copying some photos from a WSJ article from 2016, and saw this:
"Mr. Sharma said the typical age for recycling a ship is 30 years. This year the average age of ships getting scrapped is
about 15 years".
"About 1000 ships...will be dragged onto beaches, cut into pieces, and sold for scrap metal this year"  ( 2016 ).

I do not know if the upturn in the economy has changed the situation. I expect this churn rate has held pretty steady.
Lots of interesting stats in that article.
-Hue
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