What Is The Role Of A Cash Buyer in Ship Recycling Summary – This article focuses on What Is the Role of a Cash Buyer in Ship Recycling? Green Ship Recycling is the only environmentally friendly manner to dismantle the ship and ensure zero impact of the toxic metals on human and marine life. When a ship serves it tenure and is on the verge of getting terminated from its service, it is dismantled. For ship owners dismantling of ships turns out to be a complex process because of the efforts and resources it requires and so they tend to dismantle the ships illegally. This process leads to severe environmental and human health hazards. Herein comes the role of a cash buyer who purchases the decommissioned ship on a 100% cash payment to the owner and then deploys the ship for green ship recycling process to maximize the operational profit from it and minimize the environmental hazards. They are basically scrap dealers who bring the ship to its final destination of ship yards wherein they are recycled. So cash buyers facilitate this process from owners to ship yards. Owners don't directly contact the shipyards but only the cash buyers who pay them immediately and take ownership of the ship and then ultimately sell it to ship breaking industries on the yards. There is a very important reason for cash buyers to be involved in this process. The dismantling of ships is a complex process and entails a lot of legal, financial and environmental risks. To avoid all these risks and extra burden the ship owners save themselves from the consequences of ship dismantling. Once sold the ships are no longer the responsibility of their owners and any illegal disintegration of the ship bears no accountability from them. The two ways this deal gets executed is 'as in where is' and delivery basis. According to the 'as in where is' basis, the cash buyer buys the ship from its current location and takes the entire responsibility of