Tag: ship- recycling

Ship-breaking and steel sectors: DGI & IIR all set to check tax evasion

Indian supremacy in ship-breaking put to test

No More Toxic Ships to Sail to India from USA or Europe

Into the Graveyard Part 1

Into the Graveyard Part 2

India No. 1 ship-breaking centre in world

Intel sharing on Alang operations needed, say officials

Union shipping ministry has warned of serious action against state governments that fail to keep a tab on the entry of toxic-dead vessels to India for dismantling. Shipping minister G K Vasan said the ministry has tightened its monitoring and there are strong rules in place to stop the entry of such dangerous vessels.

It is hard to believe Gul Rehman who says he has been working at the Gadani ship-breaking yard since Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's reign in the 70s. Not because one may doubt his 39 year work experience, but because of the smile he continues to display despite the backbreaking work the 55-year old emigrant from Peshawar has to do.Even more surprising is the fact that Rehman's 20-year old son Habib joined him in his line of work. "I wanted him to study and be a big man, but he just wouldn't listen," says Rehman."I find studying harder than this work," retorts Habib from behind his father's back. He already has six years of experience as a welder under his belt.It is also difficult to believe young men like Farhad, whose green eyes shine out from behind layers of grime, when they say they hail from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Normally, men from the northern provinces are known for fair skin and coloured hair. But here, in this coastal graveyard for ships, their faces are tarred with oil and grime from vessels that arrive here to be dismembered.Even the chests of these labourers are burnt red by the heat of the gas-cutter's flame used to ...

Supreme Court gave 15 days more to decide for cargo ship Exxon Valdez The Supreme Court on Monday gave 15 days to Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to decide whether cargo ship Exxon Valdez, rechristened Oriental Nicety, be allowed to undertake its final journey to India's biggest ship-breaking yard at Alang.The ship, once responsible for the worst oil spills in US history when it ran aground off Alaska coast in 1989, has been anchored in international waters in Arabian Sea since the first week of May and is awaiting permission from the authorities to beach at Alang for dismantling.On May 3, the SC had sought responses from the Union ministry for environment and forests on an application filed by environment activist Gopal Krishna, who had requested the court to turn the ship away alleging that it had not followed the Basel Convention mandating decontamination of a vessel at the country of origin before being sent for breaking in another nation.A bench of Justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana P Desai brushed aside the ship owner's argument that anchoring in international water was costing him dear daily, and said the decision to beach at Alang had ...