Widow of Bangladesh shipbreaker pursues test case on worker safety
A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.
Britain’s Court of Appeal threw out a request by London-based shipbroker Maran (UK) Ltd for the negligence case to be dismissed, the second appeal the company has lost.
Hamida Begum’s husband, Khalil Mollah, 32, fell to his death in 2018 while breaking up the tanker Ekta in the Bangladesh port of Chattogram, home to one of the world’s largest ship-breaking yards, where vessels are dismantled for scrap metal.
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Widow of Bangladesh shipbreaker pursues test case on worker safety
Hamida Begum s husband, Khalil Mollah, 32, fell to his death in 2018 while breaking up the tanker Ekta in the Bangladesh port of Chattogram, home to one of the world s largest ship-breaking yards, where vessels are dismantled for scrap metal. Her UK-based lawyers said working conditions in Bangladesh s yards were known to be dangerous and argued Maran bore responsibility for Mollah s death by selling the tanker to an intermediary knowing it would probably end up in Chittagong.Reuters | Updated: 11-03-2021 19:18 IST | Created: 11-03-2021 19:18 IST
By Naimul Karim DHAKA, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.
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