The Council on Ethics recommends that the exclusion of Thoresen Thai Agencies PCL (Thoresen Thai) from investment by the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) be revoked.
As per the Council’s recommendation, Thoresen Thai has been excluded from investment by the GPFG since 2018. The Council recommended exclusion because the company had disposed of decommissioned vessels for break up on beaches in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where environmental and working conditions were considered to be extremely poor.
The company has not disposed of further ships to be broken up for scrap since 2018. The Council therefore considers that grounds for exclusion no longer exist.