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The Alang Ship Breaking Yard is the world's largest ship breaking yard, responsible for dismantling a significant number of retired freight and cargo ships salvaged from around the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located on the Gulf of Khambhat by the town of Alang , in the district of Bhavnagar in the state of Gujarat , India .
The Alang Ship Breaking Yard is the world's largest ship breaking yard, responsible for dismantling a significant number of retired freight and cargo ships salvaged from around the world. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is located on the Gulf of Khambhat by the town of Alang, in the district of Bhavnagar in the state of Gujarat , India .
Ship breaking yard Country City Province Founded Plots L (km) ref Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard: Bangladesh: Chittagong: Chittagong: 1960 18 [1] [2] [3]Alang Ship Breaking Yard
Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.
India is a signatory to Hong Kong International Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships. India plans to pass the "Recycling of Ships Act, 2019" to ratify the Hong Kong treaty. This will allow India to capture its targeted 60% in the global ship breaking business while doubling the annual to US$2.3 billion target. [15]
A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos ) are also known as ...
Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard (Bengali: সীতাকুণ্ড জাহাজ ভাঙ্গা এলাকা, romanized: Sītākuṇḍa Jāhāja Bhāṅgā Ēlākā) is located in Faujdarhat, Sitakunda Upazila, Bangladesh along the 18 kilometres (11 mi) Sitakunda coastal strip, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Chittagong. [1]
This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Indian Ocean.The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Indian Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, including its marginal seas: the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the Great Australian Bight, the Mozambique Channel, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Strait of Malacca, and the Timor Sea