The Exxon Valdez is one of thousands of ships dismantled at the Alang ship-breaking yard in western Indian state of Gujarat, India. AP Photo Gujarat, India, is home to one of the largest ship-breaking ...

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 ...

ALANG, India -- When the big ships come to Asia to die, they often take lives with them. Upendra Shethi knows. He was one of an army of laborers hired by an Indian ship-breaking yard to strip the ...

Danish shipping firm Maersk has announced it will send two decommissioned vessels to a facility in Alang, India, that it says can comply with safety and environmental responsibility best practices.

RINA Services, an Italian firm that provides classification, certification, testing and inspection services to organisations in the marine, environment and energy, infrastructures, transport and ...

Two workers recently died on the shipbreaking beach of Alang, India. Two separate accidents took place at well-known scrapping yards that have applied to be included in the EU list of approved ship ...

Off Alang in India and Chittagong in Bangladesh, ships sit in various states of disrepair — the deck of a listing ferry ripped open, a cargo ship stripped to its hull. Workers live in crowded shacks ...

MSC Chitra, which listed after colliding with M V Khalijia 3 in August last year causing a massive oil spill and shutting down the channel leading into the Mumbai port and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port ...

Duncan Graham-Rowe’s excellent and timely article on the problems created by ship-breaking in parts of Asia (22 July, p 39) underlines the need for strong international regulation of the industry.

ALANG, India/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In the world's biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India's Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian coast guard authorities say they have seized a large amount of heroin from a ship off the country's western coast. The 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds) of narcotics was estimated ...