Attractiveness of Opportunities of Ship Recycling Industry in Iran

Increasing in numbers of vessels with more than 25 year old or out of order vessels under the flag of Iran in recent years beside current demand for ship recycling in Persian Gulf and Oman sea, highlighted the importance of this industry more than before. In order to importance and urgent of establishing Ship Recycling Industry, this article exploiting a mixed method have surveyed the attractiveness of this industry in the view of opportunities.For extraction, classification and prioritization of opportunities, after exploring of literature and compiling possible scales and classes, a sample of 35-person among middle and senior managers and Port & Sipping experts in Shipping & Port Organization in Tehran, and Ports of Shahid Rajaee,Shahid Bahonar, Chabahar, and also professionals in Iranian Ranking Co.,Shipbuilding & offshore Industries of Iran-Isoico and professors of this field,using convenience sampling were selected; data gathering has been done in two phases, using open questionnaires and interviews firstly, the scales have been extracted and a questionnaire designed, secondly, to determine opportunities (T tests) and prioritization (Friedman test), the questionnaire has been distributed among the sample; seven categories for the opportunity identified included: demand for Ship Recycling, Ship Recycling Market,IMO rules, Biological Environment, Labor, Geographical Position and others, finally it has been appeared that Labor is the most important opportunity for establishing this industry in Iran that albeit the subcategories of this Factor owned the most importance among other factors.