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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.
Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard is the world's fourth largest ship breaking yard located across a 10 km (6.2 mi) long beachfront at Aliaga, Turkey The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots. [ 1 ]
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 .
Gadani currently has an annual capacity of breaking up to 125 ships of all sizes, including supertankers, with a combined LDT of 1,000,000 tons.. Although Gadani ranks as the world's third largest ship breaking yard after Alang and Chittagong in terms of volume, it is the world's leading ship breaking yard in terms of efficiency.
Chittagong Ship breaking yard. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard 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] Handling about a fifth of the world's total. It was the world's largest ship breaking yard, [2] until Alang Ship ...
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
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 ...
Ongoing ship breaking at Alang. Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat.Because it is home to the Alang Ship Breaking Yard, Alang beaches are considered the world's largest ship graveyard.The name of Capt. N. Sundaresan will be remembered in the histories of ALANG, as the founder of Alang Ship Recycling Yard.