ship breaking

ship breaking

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Shipbreakers caught in govt agencies’ wrangle over industry revenues

Bangladesh will soon lose top position if such dispute continues, experts warn

Workers often sustain severe casualties due to unplanned work practices, and the number is not negligible. All these hazards and casualties are avoidable if proper actions are taken. PHOTO: REUTERS

India eyes Bangladesh’s top spot with perks for recycling dying ships

Workers pull a long rope at a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram, Bangladesh, 17 July, 2013. Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh to halt NOCs for non-compliant Ship recycling yards, launches carbon dashboard to enforce compliance

An old-fashioned telescope, also from an old ship, is displayed at a store at Chattogram’s Madam Bibir Hat area. PHOTO: TBS

NO SCRAP LEFT BEHIND: How Bhatiari’s ship graveyard still furnishes homes across Bangladesh

Several thousand traders and workers associated with the shipbreaking industry held a human chain on 27 February along Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at the Bhatiary area in Chattogram. Photo: TBS

Shipbreaking industry traders, workers rally in Ctg, demand protection against 'conspiracies'

Peter D Haas visits PHP Ship Breaking and Recycling Yard on 23 April 2024. Photo: TBS

US Ambassador Peter D Haas applauds positive changes in Bangladesh ship breaking industry

Photo: TBS

Ship-breaking workers demand payment of salary, bonus by 20th Ramadan

Ship-breaking workers suffer lifelong illness due to asbestos exposure 

Ship-breaking workers suffer lifelong illness due to asbestos exposure 

Photo: Reuters

How ship-breaking helped shape the steel industry

Infographic: TBS

Bangladesh enters green ship recycling era

‘Ship-breaking has promising future in Bangladesh, needs govt support’

‘Ship-breaking has promising future in Bangladesh, needs govt support’

Ships, imported for dismantling, lie idle at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram as the Department of Environment is yet to greenlight their scrapping process. Photo: Mohammad Minhaz Uddin

From orange to red: How shipbreaking pays the price for downgrade in industry category

Process underway to reclassify Ctg shipbreaking yards as 'Orange'

Process underway to reclassify Ctg shipbreaking yards as 'Orange'