Shipbreaking
 

The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh

Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh - view in Google Earth

   
  The Shipbreakers: a movie by the International Labor Organisation    
 

Photo essay: Where do ships go to die? Thirty years ago, Europe's shipyards took apart most of the world's supertankers. But rising costs eventually sent much of the ship-breaking industry to Bangladesh. In just two months, teams of workers will reduce a 240,000-ton tanker to scrap metal using crowbars, hammers, and their bare hands.

   
 
Pulitzer prize winning reports on shipbreaking Podcast
   
 

Shipbreaking economics

     
 

Industry means jobs in India and Bangladesh, but also health hazards

   
 

Greenpeace - Shipbreaking

 
 
 

Shipbreaking photo / video gallery

   
 

Maritime Industries Forum 2002:  report on ship recycling

     
 

A survey on working and social-economic conditions of shipbreaking in India

     
 
Is there a decent way to break up ships? Interview
 
 
 

One in six Alang ship workers has asbestosis: government report 2006

Shipbreaking in Alang, India - view in Google Earth

     
 

UNESCO assessment of environmental, social, and cultural implications of a shipbreaking industry in Alang-Sosiya, Gujarat, India  2002

 
 
 

Shipbreaking workers from India attend a meeting in London calling on regulation in the shipbreaking industry.  2006

 
 
 

A solution to the dismantling of inactive ships in the US – brochure

Obsolete Navy Ships , Chesapeake Bay, USA - view in Google Earth

 
 
  Open Directory of shipbreaking links      
  Wikipedia – shipbreaking  
 
 

The Eurpoean Union proposes ways to make dismantling old ships safer for humans
May 2007