Bergesen is big in shipbreaking

According to the Bergesen press release web archive, they have sold 13 ships for scrap over the last 4 years. The records on their website go back to May 1996.

As Bergesen lacks a policy to avoid sending ships containing hazardous substances to Asian beaches where the yards are unable to handle the problem, most of the of their ships have ended up at Asian beaches forming a threat to the workers, environment and nearby communities. The same will happen to the other Bergesen ships in the future, unless the company acknowledges their corporate responsibility for the ships and make them clean of hazardous substances prior to export.

List of scrapped Bergesen-ships:

1. Oil tanker Berge Odel 283,274 dwt, built in 1975, August 2002

2. Gas-carrier Havvind, 12.000 cbm, built in 1976, June 2002.

3. Gas-carrier Havlys, 12.000 cbm, built in 1976, June 2002.

4. Gas-carrier Havlur, 12.000 cbm, built in 1977, June/July 2002.

5. Gas carrier Havjarl April 2002

6. Oil tanker Berge Ingerid, March 2002

7. Gas carrier Havgast May 2000,

8. Oil tanker Berge Prince January 2000

9. Oil tanker Berge Big January 2000

10. Oil tanker Berge Bonde June 1999

11. Oil tanker Berge Septimus february 1999

In addition, two tankers were sold at scrap prices in May 2000; the Berge Fister and Berge Forest were sold with a profit of 1,7 mill USD.

*Note: The gas carriers Havvind and Havlys has appeared to have returned to the market, after Bergesen sold the ships for scrap. Bergesen says they will follow this up, as the intention was to scrap them because they are old and they wanted to reduce market over-capacity.