One of his neighbours had his toes crushed in another yard shortly before AFP visited Chittagong in February. Shipbreaking yards employ 20,000 to 30,000 people directly or indirectly in the sprawling ...

Sometimes being an industry supplier offers interesting insights – your business is touched by the ups and downs of the charter market, but you are never so involved in it that you lose sight of the ...

Two workers lost their lives at the Chittagong shipbreaking yards in the last two weeks, bringing the total death toll this year to six workers, reports NGO Shipbreaking Platform. On 6 May, ...

Like voracious ants, the columns of workers set about their task, stripping the gargantuan gray hulks down to nothing. This coastal strip of southeastern Bangladesh is where some of the oceans’ ...

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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The beaches of Chittagong are a massive graveyard for decommissioned ships and tankers.

Two ship breaking workers were killed in a late-night attack by a gang of robbers at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, ...

Reporting from CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh — In late November, a 52,000-ton barge eased into this ramshackle port on the Bay of Bengal and came to rest on a wide, muddy beach. After nearly four decades ...

Ships being dismantled for scrap metal at the Aliaga ship recycling port on Nov. 22, 2023, in Izmir, Turkey. (Berkcan Zengin / Middle East Images via AFP) CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) — Mizan Hossain ...

CHITTAGONG — Mizan Hossain fell 10 metres (33-foot) from the top of a ship he was cutting up on Chittagong beach in Bangladesh -- where the majority of the world's maritime giants meet their end -- ...

Shipbreaker Mizan Hossain, whose back was crushed in a 10-metre fall, showing his swollen hands - Copyright AFP Munir UZ ZAMAN Shipbreaker Mizan Hossain, whose back ...

He survived, but his back was crushed. "I can't get up in the morning," said the 31-year-old who has a wife, three children and his parents to support. "We eat one meal in two, and I see no way out of ...