挪威规模高达1.3万亿美元的财富基金周二宣布，它已帮助解除对Thoresen Thai代理机构的排除，并结束了对现代Glovis的观察，此前这两家公司都停止了将旧船送到南亚海滩拆解的惯例。

2018年，Thoresen Thai Agencies被排除在该基金之外，原因是它们将退役船只送到工作条件“极其恶劣”的孟加拉国进行拆解。

此外，该基金指出，从2018年起，该公司没有发送任何船只进行报废，因此排除的依据无关紧要。

2023年5月，伦理委员会(Council on Ethics)提出了撤销排除的建议。

Thoresen Thai Agencies是2018年被排除在挪威主权财富基金之外的四家公司之一，因为它们将报废船舶送到巴基斯坦、孟加拉国和印度进行拆解，在这些国家，高度争议的搁浅过程通常用于拆解船舶。

据悉，从2022年开始，现代Glovis因在孟加拉国和巴基斯坦进行船舶拆解作业而被列入观察对象，为解决这一问题，现代Glovis实施了负责任的报废船舶处理政策，伦理委员会提出了解除观察对象的建议。

为了确保安全、可靠和环保的拆解船舶，《香港公约》已于2023年6月达到了2025年生效所需的门槛。

这一里程碑事件发生在国际海事组织(简称IMO)通过该公约14年后。

欧盟一直在通过《欧洲船舶回收条例》(European Ship Recycling Regulation)打击危险的拆船行为，该条例要求悬挂欧盟旗帜的大型远洋船舶使用欧洲清单中经批准的船舶回收设施，这些设施已被确定满足严格的安全和环境要求。

该规定也符合《香港公约》。已批准的船厂名单已更新，包括位于土耳其和欧洲的48家船厂。

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英文原文

Norway’s whopping $1.3 trillion wealth fund declared on Tuesday that it has helped lift the exclusion of Thoresen Thai Agencies and concluded the observation of Hyundai Glovis after both firms ceased their usual practice of sending old vessels to be dismantled on the beaches of South Asia.

Thoresen Thai Agencies were excluded from the fund in 2018 owing to the practice of sending out decommissioned vessels to get scrapped in Bangladesh, where the working conditions are “extremely poor.”

Further, the fund noted that the firm has not sent any vessel for scrapping from 2018 onward, rendering the basis for exclusion irrelevant.

The recommendation for revoking the exclusion was made by the Council on Ethics in May 2023.

Thoresen Thai Agencies was among the four firms to be excluded from the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund back in 2018 for the practice of sending out end-of-life ships for scrapping in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, wherein the highly controversial beaching process is commonly used to dismantle ships.

Hyundai Glovis, the firm that was under observation from 2022 for its practice of sending vessels for scrapping in Bangladesh and Pakistan, has reportedly implemented a policy for the responsible disposal of decommissioned ships to address this issue, resulting in the Council on Ethics and further suggesting that the observation status be lifted.

In a step toward ensuring the safe, secure, and environmentally friendly scrapping of vessels, the Hong Kong Convention has reached the much-needed threshold in June 2023 for its entry into the force in 2025.

This milestone came through over 14 years after the convention was adopted by the International Maritime Organization (abbreviated the IMO).

The EU has been cracking down on risky vessel-breaking practice with the European Ship Recycling Regulation, which needs huge sea-going vessels that sail with the EU flags to use an approved vessel recycling facility from the European List that have been determined to satisfy stringent safety and environmental requirements.

The regulation also aligns with the Hong Kong Convention. The list of approved yards has been updated to contain 48 yards situated in Turkey and Europe.

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