Shipbreaking in Alang-Sosiya (India)...causes waste disposal conflicts. The [EU] Commission's...ship recycling regulation...serves to illustrate that the EU wants to avoid such conflicts. However...this proposal will not be able to address the problem...Greater and effective opposition encountered by ship owners and ship breakers regarding their shifting of environmental costs would result in improved sustainability and reinforced environmental justice...In August 2009, a fire broke out aboard the European ship MSC Jessica killing six workers on the Indian ship-breaking beaches of Alang...It took place as the ship had neither been decontaminated by the original owner nor made safe by the local enterprise. [These] kind of tragedies is rather common in Alang. [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Alang Auto & Engineering to respond. MSC response provided. We will indicate here if Alang Auto & Engineering responds].