The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of dismantling old ships in Bangladesh, officials said, following the latest worker fatality.

Workers in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards lose 20 years of life expectancy due to dangerous working conditions while local communities and the environment suffer from pollution, reveals a new report ...

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to ...

A fresh row over scrap steel has put Bangladesh’s ship-breaking industry into peril. The ship-breakers have raised the price of scrap steel by Tk 1000 (US $15.79) per metric ton and decided to sell ...

The ship-breaking industry in Bangladesh has been a source of national pride for decades, and it has also been potential source of environmental disaster too at the same time. Being one of the world's ...

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With a fleet of 291 ships having a carrying capacity of 5.8 million deadweight tons (DWT), Bangladesh might be ranked 35th in global maritime transport. But when it comes to scrapping old shipping ...

What happens when a ship dies? They are sent to hazardous graveyards in places like India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan to be dismantled and sold as scrap. However, the process is labour intensive ...

When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels – giving one photographer a unique perspective.

End-of-life ship broker GMS also says prices for salvageable vessels are rebounding this autumn. Global salvaged ship broker GMS says demand from buyers in the Alang, India, region have been ramping ...

A former Gaz de France LNG carrier has turned up for demolition in Bangladesh, bringing the total of LNG vessels sold for scrap this year to three. Demolition cash buyers confirmed the 50,240-cbm ...

Bangladesh is set to ratify an international convention in early June on recycling ships aimed at increasing safety and environmental standards, a senior official told Reuters. "We expect the first ...