Napoli the container ship which stalled in early 2007 is set to undergo recycling. The job of taking to pieces the ship’s remaining stern part started in Branscombe last week in readiness for its ultimate removal while dismantling of the bow is almost finished at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff. Every piece of the metal that went into constructing the Napoli will be recycled.
Joris Minne, the spokesperson of Harland and Wolff admitted that the work of recycling Napoli was a very big project since the ship had some sixty thousand tonnes of steel. Approximately one hundred and fifty people are involved in the project of recycling the grounded container ship.
The Harland and Wolff spokesperson offered that the cutting was being done by hand and the metal then smelted into sellable slabs which would most likely be used for the building of more ships.
Joris Minne disclosed that despite the Napoli arriving at Harland and Wolff last August, the work of recycling it did not start just then because they had to empty about eighty cubic tonnes of oil which was on board. The spokesperson predicted that it would take about two and a half weeks before the ship was fully cut up and then recycled.
This is the first project of such a magnitude the shipyard has handled since it was given a permit to take apart ships and recycle them. Harland and Wolff purchased the body of the wrecked ship from the insurer of Napoli and expects to return a profit by selling the steel that will be recycled.
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