Ship recycling of the future without a future?

A Bremen-based company wants to transform Stralsunder Werft into a state-of-the-art plant for the recycling of ships. The Hanseatic city could thus become a pioneer in the sustainable reuse of ship steel, but the application has been with the licensing authority for almost a year. Meanwhile, the company has opened the first German ship recycling plant at another location. Because it takes so long in Stralsund, the project now threatens to fail d…