General Information
International Chamber of Shipping - the basics on world commercial shipping
National Environmental Education and Training Center - a university center which specialized in interdisciplinary research and the development of safety, training, and educational materials for the hazardous waste industry
Basel Convention: Dismantling of ships - part of the United Nations' environment program
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners

General Reports on Shipbreaking
The Ship Recycling Fund: Financing environmentally sound scrapping and recycling of sea going ships - Greenpeace report published in 2005 (.pdf file)
Destination Unknown: European single hull oil tanker, no place to go - Greenpeace reported published in 2004 (.pdf file)
Martime Administration Report - that latest budget information on shipbreaking (.pdf file)

Alang, India
Alang Ship-Recycling: Gujarat Martime Board - official history and statistics about Alang
Ships for Scrap:Steel and Toxic Wastes for Asia - original 1998 report on Alang by Greepeace (.pdf file)

The Ghost Fleet
Disposal Options for Ships - 2001 RAND report on the costs of dismantling the decommissioned Ghost Fleet and Navy fleet
Report to Congress on the program for scrapping obselete national defense reserve fleet vessals - 2001 Maritime Administration report (.pdf file)
Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Oil Spills from the National Defense Reserver fleet - 2002 Martime Administration report (.pdf file)
Report to Congress on the progress of the vessel scrapping program - 2002 Maritime Administration Report (.pdf file)
Basel Action Network and Sierra Club lawsuit - to stop the export of 13 U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) ships (.pdf file)
Needless Risk: The Bush Administration's Scheme to Export Toxic Waste Ships to Europe - report by the BaselAction Network, published in 2003 (.pdf file)

Canadian Ships
The Fleet Photo Gallery - Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online archive of the entire U.S. and Canadian fleet, histories of the Canadian Venture and Trader are listed under
scrapped ships
Canada's Export and Import of Hazardous Wastes Regulations

Activist Sites
The Basel Action Network - an international network of activists seeking to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical trade
Shipbreaking - Greenpeace site about shipbreaking around the world

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