“Europe is equipping itself for the controlled demolition of the ship.
The practice of beaching, as in Turkey, India, Bangladesh and China, and working conditions, which make it the sector with the highest risk of fatal injury, will be gradually abandoned, but will remain, however, some of the black pages of Labour”

In the means of both civil and military navigation has been done in the past widespread use of asbestos and materials containing it.

Even today asbestos is present on board various ships and continues to represent a serious problem of occupational hygiene especially during the operations of ship repair.
The main functions for which the asbestos was used were the following: insulation of the ship’s structure and pipelines for fluids, fire protection, sound absorption, sound-deadening and personal protection during the performance of some processes such as welding.
And ‘advisable to divide the list of materials containing asbestos in shipbuilding and on…