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 ...

On the Bangladeshi coast of the Bay of Bengal, past-their-prime oil tankers and cargo vessels are beached on the muddy shore like industrial, open-air graveyards. There, these massive ships are taken ...

ALANG, India—The SS Norway, once one of America's premier cruise ships, stands on death's edge off the coast of rural India, a battleground in the international struggle over the controversial ...

Dying piece by piece, the beached supertanker looms over the shore, a skeletal Colossus almost too big to be imagined, and a cash cow heralding a rebirth for the country’s controversial ship-breaking ...

Bangladeshi officials, activists and Caritas have joined together to denounce the country's ship breaking companies who, they said, violate regulations, harm workers and the environment. So far this ...

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh/SINGAPORE, May 19 (Reuters) - Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis ...

We were recently watching a couple of documentaries on the ship breaking industry and we thought it would be interesting to see what they look like from above in Google Earth. So we looked around the ...

There are many men there, thousands of them. The men are crawling all over the ships. The ships have been pulled out of the water using big winches that are sunk into the sand on the beach. They pull ...

CHITTAGONG: Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis out of a life of poverty. Instead of ...