Ship-Recycling Chain Board Adviser

The mandate

The committee repeatedly asks whether a contractual promise to use an approved recycling yard survives sale through brokers, cash buyers, reflagging, final voyage and subcontracted waste streams. With the Hong Kong Convention in force since 26 June 2025, ship preparation, hazardous-material, certification and facility evidence must connect to actual worker and environmental execution rather than clause labels. Crew handover, gas-free condition and downstream disposal evidence age on different clocks. Directors receive buyer warranties but cannot see which control remains exercisable after title changes or what action follows contradictory yard evidence.

This is a remote-led board appointment with required physical travel, not a location-free desktop review. The three days reserved each month support secure transaction-evidence review, one disposal-chain challenge and the chair’s decision follow-through from the adviser’s base. Five sustainability-and-risk committee sessions sit inside the service, while four vessel, buyer or yard-chain reviews require attendance at the relevant operating location. A disposal proposed with materially weakened control receives written challenge within two Swiss business days; authorised management and competent authorities retain every live sale, route, yard and contractual decision.

Four planned vessel disposals form the case sequence and must be examined within the ten-month limit. At expiry, the remote leadership brief closes even if a final voyage or yard programme moves. Another term is possible only for a changed stewardship question after management proves it maintains the first evidence chain, directors pass a new resolution and conflicts are disclosed again. Unused days cannot be reassigned to transaction representation or legal monitoring.

The adviser holds no line authority and carries no executive responsibility for sale, buyer selection, contract, voyage, flag, yard approval, labour, waste, inspection or legal compliance. Management proposes disposals and directors approve reserved choices. The adviser may challenge chain credibility and recommend conditions but cannot select a yard, negotiate price, direct the master or certify environmental and labour performance.

Work for owners, brokers, cash buyers, yards, class, flags, insurers, lenders, unions, NGOs or transaction counsel must be disclosed. A relevant interest requires recusal from the whole vessel chain. Compensation cannot depend on sale value, buyer, yard, recovered steel, certification or later monitoring, and paid referrals are prohibited.

Why the board wants this voice

Transaction teams are rewarded for completing sales, sustainability teams see policy and buyers control evidence after title transfer. The board lacks an operator who has followed ships and material through the complete chain. Independent challenge can distinguish contractual comfort from exercisable stewardship without acting as buyer, certifier or campaigner.

What you will own

• Press management to trace control from disposal decision through buyer, flag, final voyage, yard and downstream material destination.
• Test hazardous-material inventories for currency, vessel changes, access, handover and use in actual work planning.
• Challenge buyer and yard warranties whose verification rights, remedies or survival after onward sale are weak.
• Probe crew welfare, gas-free condition, beaching or docking method, subcontracting and waste-chain evidence.
• Review four disposal chains and identify lost control, conflicting documents, unverifiable claims and decision deadlines.
• Shape board conditions for buyer diligence, monitoring, title transfer, breach response and transparent reporting.
• Give the chair a vessel casebook, control-decay map, conflict register and questions for fleet-disposal approval.

Candidate qualifications

• Governed ship disposal or recycling across owners, cash buyers, flags, yards and downstream material chains.
• Has stopped or reconditioned a vessel sale after promised yard or labour controls proved non-exercisable.
• Understands hazardous-material inventories, final voyage, gas-free preparation, title transfer and waste evidence.
• Can challenge legal and certification comfort without offering counsel, survey or environmental approval.
• Advised boards through commercially sensitive disposal choices while preserving management and authority ownership.
• Maintained independence from brokers, buyers, yards, class, flags, insurers, lenders and advocacy groups through post-delivery verification.

Non-negotiables

• Can attend five Geneva sessions and complete four vessel, buyer or yard-chain reviews.
• Will disclose owner, broker, buyer, yard, class, flag, lender and NGO relationships before access.
• Brings complete recycling-chain experience; sustainability policy or sale broking alone is insufficient.
• Accepts no sale, price, route, yard, certification, labour, waste or board-voting authority.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a recycling sale you stopped because downstream control would not survive title transfer.
2. 49 words maximum. Which broker, buyer, yard or advocacy relationship could require your recusal?
3. 49 words maximum. What evidence proves a hazardous-material inventory changed the yard’s actual work plan?