A powerful gale overtook the ship roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point, and it began breaking apart around 9 p.m. It sank within about 10 minutes. Most of the crew got into the ship's metal ...

I had been warned that it would be difficult to get into Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards ... ship-breakers. “In the West you don’t let people pollute your countries by breaking up ...

(Bloomberg) -- Indian ship-breaking yards have been starved of business while aging tankers were kept afloat to carry illicit oil around the globe. Now, as sanctions enforcement tightens and ...

But since the record-breaking ship sank in 1892, it’s become known for the tragic series of events that unfolded when it went down. In August that year, Minch took his family aboard the ship ...

We take you inside the yard turning these floating hotels into this. Before the pandemic, the Aliaga ship-breaking yards were pretty quiet. Normally, the 22 yards only demolished a few dozen cargo ...

There are 78 ship-breaking yards scattered along the Chittagong coast. As we found out when we traveled there, most are hidden from the road, often unmarked at the end of small lanes from the highway.

report_id=bw9478 Ship breaking refers to the dismantling of a ship after its estimated end of life. Based on utilization and condition, vessels are sent for scrapping to yards, which charge ship ...

On 15 km of coastline, Sitakunda is home to 30 ship-breaking yards. These yards recycle 38% of all dead ships in the world and provide steel scraps to Bangladesh's flourishing manufacturing industry.