There have been some efforts to clean up the Ship Graveyard, but the task is massive and costly. The Mauritanian government, international organizations and private companies have made some attempts to remove and dismantle the ships, but it's still a work in progress. The situation is complicated by the lack of proper infrastructure and regulations for the disposal of old ships. As of 2018 the government was actively selling off the abandoned ships to anyone to committed to dismantling them properly for scrap.