[Milsurplus] Shipbreaking stats 2016

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

India most certainly has a ship “recycling” industry. It’s not pretty ….

From what I have seen, most of the high value stuff gets pulled out of the ship before 
it goes to the breakup process. Essentially the last voyage is done with the bare minimum
of gear to legally navigate. One would *guess* that these guys run same / same gear in a lot
of ships. The stuff they pull goes on the shelf as spares ….

Bob

> On May 10, 2018, at 7:07 PM, Bruce Gentry <ka2ivy at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Subject:	Re: [Milsurplus] Shipbreaking stats 2016
> Date:	Thu, 10 May 2018 19:06:03 -0400
> From:	Bruce Gentry <ka2ivy at verizon.net> <mailto:ka2ivy at verizon.net>
> To:	tbryan at nova.org <mailto:tbryan at nova.org>
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> I have seen a lot of quartz chronometers, clocks, and navigational instruments on Epay being sold from India. Do they have a� shipbreaking industry?� 
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> ����� Bruce gentry, KA2IVY
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> On 5/10/18 6:56 PM, Tom B wrote:
>> Hi Hue,
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>> In recent years the trend has been to larger containerships (18,000 - 20,000+ TEUs).� The smaller ones that could not be deployed in other markets are being scrapped.
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>> Also, the Chinese have a ship scrapping subsidy program and quite a few ships have been scrapped under that.� 
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>> Markets are good now so scrapping is down (2018).
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>> If you want to look up a specific U.S.-flag ship, there is a ship history database run by MARAD here:
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>> https://www.marad.dot.gov/sh/ShipHistory/ShipList?pageNumber=1&matchFromStart=True <https://www.marad.dot.gov/sh/ShipHistory/ShipList?pageNumber=1&matchFromStart=True>I assume that the radio equipment is being sold or scrapped overseas.� 
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>> Tom Bryan
>> N3AJA
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>> On 5/10/2018 6:00 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>>> 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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