Steel Scrap Prediction from Indonesian Ship Recycling: Ship Type Point of View

Abstract

Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships 2009 will entry into force on 26 Juni 2025, which is 24 month after Bangladesh and Liberia deposited their instrument to be a Contracted States to the Convention in 2023. As known widely, the output from the ship recycling activity is steel scrap that can be melted as a source of new steel. In Indonesia, the number of ship scrap is expected to be able to contribute to national steel industry. There are around 14.000 ships registered in Biro KlasiOikasi Indonesia. More than 2000 ships have been operated for more than 25 years. The aim of this study is for predicting the weight of the steel scrap by calculating the Light Displacement Tonnage (LDT) of potential ships to be recycled from available data based on 11 ship types that has higher total GT Total LDT estimation from ships more than 25 years is almost 2 million tons. This number would contribute positively to shipbuilding industry in Indonesia.