The shipping industry has welcomed a European Commission proposal to add two Indian ship recycling facilities to an updated European List of Ship Recycling Facilities, industry associations said on 3 September 2026.
BIMCO, European Shipowners | ECSA, the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO and the World Shipping Council all issued positive responses following the announcement reported on 3 September 2026.
The proposal concerns the inclusion of two Indian facilities on the European List of Ship Recycling Facilities as part of its updated register, the industry groups confirmed.
Collectively, the six trade bodies expressed support for the Commission’s move, underlining their alignment on the decision reported.
The shipping industry has advocated for the inclusion of compliant non‑OECD yards, the organisations said, indicating the matter has been an active point of engagement for those groups.
Industry response
The six associations named in the report issued welcome for the European Commission proposal, according to reports, which carried the account on 3 September 2026.
Their statements, as summarised in the report, focused on the Commission’s proposed amendments to the updated European List rather than on operational details of the yards themselves.
What was proposed
The Commission’s proposal set out to add two Indian ship recycling facilities to the updated European List of Ship Recycling Facilities; the industry groups publicly welcomed that step, the report recorded.
The reports account provides the consolidated reaction of BIMCO, European Shipowners | ECSA, the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO and the World Shipping Council to the proposal dated 3 September 2026.
The coordinated response from the industry bodies as described in the report signals shared positions among major maritime associations on the composition of the European List, and on the question of including compliant facilities outside OECD member states.
The organisations named in The report span shipowners, operators and broader shipping interests, and their combined welcome of the proposed additions was presented as a single industry reaction in the account published on 3 September 2026.
The report did not list the names of the two Indian facilities proposed for inclusion, nor did it provide further technical or procedural detail about the Commission’s next steps; the summary confines itself to the industry response recorded by reports.
Any further procedural developments or the formal adoption of the proposal by the European institutions were not detailed in the report cited, which focused on the industry groups’ immediate reaction to the Commission’s proposal on 3 September 2026.
The reports item serves as the source for the consolidated welcome from the six associations and the description of the Commission’s proposal to add the two Indian facilities to the updated European List of Ship Recycling Facilities, dated 3 September 2026.