Maritime market can be defined as a complex system of the ratio between supply and demand for shipping space for the carriage of passengers and/or cargo, new ships, used ships and dismantled ships. Accordingly, the shipping market can be divided into the shipping market for the carriage of passengers and/or cargo, shipbuilding market, the market of used ships and market of dismantled ships. Dilapidated ships are those ships that are for some reason sold in the scrap yard for scrap metal. On the decision to sell the ship to scrap affect economic, physical, social and technological factors. Analysis of the situation in the world market of dismantled ships showed that the Taiwan and North Korea to the seventies gradually asserted itself as the country with the largest share in this market, but in the late eighties meet their needs for steel. Their place in the late eighties took Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and China and these countries still have the largest share in the global market of dismantled ships. China was imposed because of the great need for steel, which is nearly half of the world's needs for steel, while Bangladesh, India and Pakistan realized the possibility of exploitation of beaches and inexpensive recycling of old ships and the use of steel with these ships. Although in these countries is more cost-effective to recycle ships than in Europe or in the United States, there are daily violated workers' rights and international regulations on safety and environmental protection. However, as a serious competitor in the market enters Turkey. It is assumed that these Asian countries will have the largest shares in the global market of decommissioned ships in the near future and that the number of dismantled ships in the coming years will decline, but will grow the number of beached ships.