Published on : 14 Nov 2025, 8:49 am

Greenpeace South Asia on November 13 released an investigation that could reset global conversations on corporate responsibility at sea.

The 128-page report, Below Deck: The Truth Beneath What You See (Mediterranean Shipping Company – MSC) , draws from a decade of inspection records, detentions, court filings and verified documentation to describe what it calls a global pattern of safety failures and environmental neglect by the world’s largest container shipping company.

The report comes six months after the MSC ELSA 3, a Liberia-flagged vessel owned by MSC, sank off the Kerala coast, spilling oil and nearly 1,400 tonnes of plastic pellets into the Arabian Sea. Greenpeace argues that the disaster was not an aberration but the foreseeable outcom

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