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15-563: In the 1980s, Gadani was the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in Alang , India and Chittagong , Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with Gadani today producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced in the 1980s. The recent reduction in taxes on scrap metal has led to a modest resurgence of output at Gadani, which now employs around 6,000 workers. More than one million tons of steel

30-409: A day, and are exposed to many dangers. 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. At Gadani, a ship with 5,000 LDT

45-429: A huge fire. Reportedly more than 100 people were dismantling a tanker in the yard. Some 30 other workers were also reported missing. On November 13, 2017 it was reported that another fire broke out on the same vessel. NGO Shipbreaking Platform reported that Aces laid untouched at the same yard for 12 months after the explosion. The Pakistan Department of Environment gave permission for work to resume on her recycling. On

60-454: Is a 2004 documentary on the industry in Alang by Michael Kot . World War Z , a 2006 novel by Max Brooks , features Alang as a destination for refugees seeking to escape a zombie plague by sea. Battlefield 2042 , a 2021 first-person shooter , features Alang as the setting for the multiplayer map Discarded. Ship graveyard A ship graveyard , ship cemetery or breaking yard

75-532: 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 ship graveyards. By analogy, the phrase can also refer to an area with many shipwrecks which have not been removed by human agency, instead being left to disintegrate naturally. These can form in places where navigation

90-570: Is broken within 30 to 45 days, whereas in India and Bangladesh it takes, on average, more than six months to break a vessel of the same size. Ship breaking was conducted in Gadani on rare occasions before Pakistan became a sovereign country. The activity of ship breaking at Gadani greatly increased in the 1960s. In 1978, the city of Gadani was designated by the Government of Pakistan as a port. It

105-793: Is difficult or dangerous (such as the Seven Stones , off Cornwall, or Blackpool , on the Irish Sea); or where many ships have been deliberately scuttled together ( as with the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow ); or where many ships have been sunk in battle (such as Ironbottom Sound , in the Pacific). The majority of the ships in the world are constructed in the developed countries. Ships last about 25–30 years, after which they become too expensive to maintain and are sold to be broken down. Most of them are directly sold to

120-555: Is salvaged per year, and much of it is sold domestically. In the 2009-2010 fiscal year, a record 107 ships, with a combined light displacement tonnage (LDT) of 852,022 tons, were broken at Gadani, whereas in the previous 2008-2009 fiscal year, 86 ships, with a combined LDT of 778,598 tons, were turned into scrap. It is the world's third-largest ship breaking yard after Alang Ship Breaking Yard ( India ) and Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard ( Bangladesh ), and followed by Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard ( Turkey ). Workers may earn as little as $ 12

135-541: 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. It is located on the Gulf of Khambhat by the town of Alang, in the district of Bhavnagar in the state of Gujarat , India . On the Road to Alang is a 2005 documentary on passenger ships scrapped at Alang, by Peter Knego of Maritime Matters . Shipbreakers

150-487: The Government of Pakistan reduced ship-breaking duties from 15% to 10% and offered further incentives if industry activity improved. After these changes employment increased to a total of around 6,000 workers. On 1 November 2016, at least 26-31 people were killed and 58 wounded as a result of gas cylinder explosions on a ship being scrapped, the floating production storage and offloading oil tanker Aces ( IMO number :  8021830 , built 1982 as Mobil Flinders ), causing

165-605: The first day that the breaking recommenced, a fire broke out again, as the oil residues inside the tanker had not been removed. 25°04′N 66°42′E  /  25.067°N 66.700°E  / 25.067; 66.700 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

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180-437: The population is under 6 years of age. Mithi Virdi (or Viradi) is a proposed site consisting of six nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 6,600 MW about 3 km (2 mi) north of the ship breaking beach. The proposed nuclear plant has faced heavy opposition from the local population. The area around the proposed plant is known for growing some of the highest-quality kesar mango trees. The Alang Ship Breaking Yard

195-559: The ship recycling companies in India , Bangladesh , Pakistan and other developing countries, also known as the (semi-)periphery countries from Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory . In 2014, 54 percent of the ships went to the beaches of India and Bangladesh. This is consistent with the period 2012–2018. From the total of 6,702 scrapped ships worldwide, 3,586 ships have been scrapped in India and Bangladesh, which comes down to 53.5 percent. As of January 2020, with 30% share India has

210-442: The world's largest ship graveyard .The name of Capt. N. Sundaresan‘s will be remembered in the histories of ALANG, as the founder of Alang Ship Recycling Yard. As of the 2001 Indian census , Alang had a population of 18,464. Males constitute 82% of the population and females 18%. Alang has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 89% of the males and 11% of females literate. Seven percent of

225-467: Was described as the largest such yard in the world. However, increased competition from rival ship-breaking yards in Alang , India , and Chittagong , Bangladesh , coupled with relatively high import duty for decommissioned vessels, led to a disastrous decline in Gadani's output. After producing an average of one million tonnes of scrap in the 1980s, by 2001 the yard produced less than 160,000 tonnes and for ten months had no new vessel arrivals. In 2001,

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