SCRAP IRON ASSOC WANTS SHIPWRECKS

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The Scrap Iron Dealers Association is offering to take care of all of the ships that have been abandoned in T&T's waters, for free! TTSIDA says all it needs is the green light from the government, and it can jumpstart a ship recycling industry in T&T! Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00one man's junk is another man's treasure and president of the Trinidad and Tobago scrap iron

00:10dealers association Alan Ferguson says all of TNT stands to benefit from a shipwreck recycling

00:17industry it will bring a lot of foreign exchange it will open up a market for as I tell you for

00:24big ships to come into Trinidad to cut up and when you when I talk in Trinidad I don't mean

00:29that we will when we finish they rise it you know it will bring in all the ships from all the Caribbean

00:35Islands why do you think they're bringing ships in Trinidad so to dump dump it and leave it because

00:40they need people to cut it up and if we open that market in Trinidad we'll be cutting a big ship it

00:46will open a way for a big way for us here to employ thousands of people TTCDA had engaged the relevant

00:54international and local stakeholders on the matter back in 2021 and even secured the support

01:01of the EMA however shortly thereafter the industry was shut down the association has now written to

01:07works minister Julian John appealing for support to make its ship-breaking proposal a reality if somebody

01:15in your country want to do something like that and have the experience why we why you wouldn't allow

01:20them to do it when it will cause the country not a dollar to do it we see we want to do because we

01:27have the skills we have the people who have the experience to do it and all these acting for you the

01:33government to work with us our sisters not only is TTCDA not asking for financial assistance from the

01:40government but Ferguson notes they'll be saving the country millions of dollars and addressing a

01:46major environmental concern we have a way that we want to cut it up with shares and it's only take

01:52about two or three months to cut up a big massive ship anything it will take if something will take

01:58a month it will take two weeks to cut up for a week that we will move them directs in in Karen

02:03I did we would mash up that in in a short space of time long as we get enough the pigments are able to

02:10work we were able to move all the pigments and I'm telling you with no oil spilling out of nowhere because we know

02:15how to to save the area we will make sure that the ships and them have no oil in it we will make

02:20sure that everything is on board in reference to when we move in it and on the topic of oil anybody

02:27who is interested in dumping oil and want to get rid of the oil contact the Trinidad and Tobago

02:33association it's copine association we will get rid of the oil without they have to dump it in the sea

02:39we have a marketplace and we we will get rid of it for them Renessa Cutting tb6 news

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