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The Supreme Court of Norway has rejected an appeal from a Norwegian shipowner in the case of a scrapped dry bulk vessel. The verdict is a victory for the prosecution authority, which deems it important in both a national and international perspective.

Norways supreme court has upheld the conviction of shipowner Georg Eide in connection with the attem...

Norwegian shipowner Georg Eide appeals the verdict of the appeal court which maintained the prison sentence given in 2020. Updated.

The Gulating Lagmannsrett, an Appeal Court in the Norwegian city of Bergen, has confirmed the prison sentence for Norwegian ship owner Georg Eide for aiding and abetting the attempt to export the ship Tide Carrier, aka Eide Carrier and Harrier, to Pakistan for scrapping. Back in November 2020, the First Instance Sunnhordland District Court in ...

Appeal court in Bergen, Norway, maintains the district court’s verdict of a six-months prison sentence for Norwegian shipowner Georg Eide.

630 Ships Sent for Demolition During 2020 According to new data released today by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, 630 ocean-going commercial ships and offshore units were sold to the scrap yards in 2020. Of these vessels, 446 large tankers, bulkers, floating platforms, cargo- and passenger ships were broken down on three beaches in South Asia, amounting to near 90% of the gross tonnage dismantled globally. Ships are considered hazardous waste under international environmental law as they contain...