Inspections will move from a published schedule to unannounced visits.
Yard operators say the substantive change is documentation rather than physical standards.
Labour groups have argued for years that the scheduled regime was easy to prepare for.
Ship-breaking yards face a new inspection regime
Inspections move from scheduled to unannounced, and yards say the paperwork burden is the real change.
Sana Iqbal
31 Jul 2026, 12:00
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