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  2. Alang Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Alang - Wikipedia

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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. [ 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 .

  4. Ship breaking - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. List of ship breaking yards - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ to be raised from the deep – along ...

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    The ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ is set to be recovered from the bottom of the ocean - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money.

  7. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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    USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...

  9. New deep-water channel allows first ship to pass Key bridge ...

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    The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting ...