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It is known as the graveyard of ships, a place where ageing vessels are torn apart by unskilled labourers and the metal then sold on as scrap. In recent years these often deadly and dangerous ship ...

The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...

Presenting a very ambitious plan for ship recycling on the inaugural day of the “India Maritime Week 2025” at Mumbai on Monday, Gujarat government said it plans to recycle 15,000 ageing ships at Alang ...

Haresh Parmar, the owner of Somnath Ship Recycling Company, the world’s biggest ship breaking yard Alang in Gujarat, has not received a ship for recycling in the past 20 months. The iconic INS Viraat ...

Workers and their supervisors at the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang, in coastal South Gujarat, are busy these days. For someone who had seen this graveyard of ships a decade ago with its ...

The battle to save the decommissioned Indian Navy carrier, Viraat, from being broken up for scrap has reached the Bombay High Court, with a Mumbai-based company filing a petition that will be heard on ...

A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led to an influx of rigs and tanks in Gujarat's Alang for dismantling. (Image: IE) A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led ...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...