Review on Ship Recycling Industry

Abstract

Ship dismantling for recycling, also known as ship scrapping, is a crucial component of the maritime industry. This expanding industry has a significant impact because it uses the large steel ships when they are no longer needed. The owners, shipyards, and recycling industry will all profit from this use. Several studies have looked into and addressed a few aspects and subcategories of this dynamic market. However, none of them has conducted a thorough review of the academic research studies on ship recycling that are currently available. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to provide a brief overview of the development of scholarly inquiry into the emerging subject of ship recycling. To that end, we conducted a systematic literature review of ship recycling topic on a sample of 100 papers related to that field. the objectives of that review are to identify the topics of academic research in that field, the employed methodologies, the main research challenges and directions in connection to ship scrapping. To achieve these objectives, we designed a methodology flow chart to be our frame work and throughout its steps we revealed some facts and conclusions based on 51 screened papers. The results demonstrated that Top leading countries in ship recycling industry are Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China and Turkey. The results also demonstrated that the main research focus is concentrated on HSE impacts & challenges, operations and management. there is a lack of studies in areas related to design considerations, economic and legal issues. Moreover, almost no scientific research has been published in regarding with this industry implementation in Egypt. Based on the analyzed literature, the policy makers can make use of this information about research collaborations, groups, and directions to determine opportunities for investing and implementing ship recycling techniques that comply with standards in an efficient manner for environment, economy and safety insurance, moreover research investments could be influenced by this information in a way that make touchable advancements to that growing industry.