Migrant labourers are leaving ship breaking yards at Alang, Gujarat in droves, thus adding further strain on the embattled ship recyclers smarting under the after effect of the coronavirus outbreak.

Every year, hundreds of massive ships reach the end of their working lives and make one final journey to a small coastal town ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Exxon Valdez is one of thousands of ships dismantled at the Alang ship-breaking yard in western Indian state of Gujarat, India ...

The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...

It is known as the graveyard of ships, a place where ageing vessels are torn apart by unskilled labourers and the metal then sold on as scrap. In recent years these often deadly and dangerous ship ...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...

Haresh Parmar, the owner of Somnath Ship Recycling Company, the world’s biggest ship breaking yard Alang in Gujarat, has not received a ship for recycling in the past 20 months. The iconic INS Viraat ...

Presenting a very ambitious plan for ship recycling on the inaugural day of the “India Maritime Week 2025” at Mumbai on Monday, Gujarat government said it plans to recycle 15,000 ageing ships at Alang ...

Workers and their supervisors at the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang, in coastal South Gujarat, are busy these days. For someone who had seen this graveyard of ships a decade ago with its ...

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