Labour shortage impedes operations at Alang shipbreaking yards“There is no labour for loading, unloading and ship cutting. Imagine running this labour intensive unit with just 30% of workers,” said Har...
Just sounds of waves breaking at Alang ship-breaking yardChittagong in Bangladesh and Alang in Gujarat are global leaders in the marine salvage industry, with the Indian facility having a clear ed...
Shipbreaking at Alang grinds to a complete haltChittagong in Bangladesh and Alang in Gujarat are global leaders in the marine salvage industry, with the Indian facility having a clear ed...
JICA loan to upgrade Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards in GujaratThe total cost of the project will be $111 million, out of which $76 million will be provided as soft loan from JICA.
At Alang shipbreaking yard, worker safety remains a dusty dreamGoing the whole nine yards in Alang, the ship graveyard of the world, where worker safety and benefits are still a dusty, murky pipe dream.
Maersk Group plans to break ships at Alang Yard"The Maersk Group’s policy is to only recycle ships responsibly. Until recently, this was only feasible in a limited number of yards in Chi...
Gujarat comes out with policy to help Alang ship-breaking industryFinance Minister Saurabh Patel said the state government and Gujarat Maritime Board formulated the policy to promote the industrial activit...
Alang ship breakers hit by drop in steel scrap prices, rupee depreciatio: IFA Global reportThe shipyard at Alang recycles approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world and is considered as the world's largest graveyard...
Gujarat: High Court seeks Centre's reply to PIL on labourers' safety at AlangHC directed central government to file its reply to PILwhich sought labourers' safety at Alang ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar district.
- Strengthen security at Alang ship-breaking yard: Panel
It has also said that the overall security at the yard be beefed up and the area should have more policemen.
Dawood Ibrahim active in Alang ship-breaking businessFugitive Dawood Ibrahim and his aides have a major stake in the multi-million dollar ship-breaking industry in Gujarat, according to an int...
- MoEF seeks details of ship in Alang from Guj authorities
The MoEF has sought details from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and Gujarat Maritime Board on a ship that has come for dismantling at ...
- Scrap from Alang may bring down steel prices
The increasing ship-breaking activity at the country’s largest ship-breaking yard, Alang, may cause a fall in steel prices, with hundreds o...
- Ship-breakers desert Alang yard
The hands that used to work on mammoth ocean liners and crude carriers and generated revenues worth Rs 80,000 crore till 2008 in one of the...
- Gujarat government plans SPV for Alang shipyard
The Gujarat government is planning to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle to develop, maintain and operate the Alang Ship Breaking yard on a p...
- Two dozen ships help Alang sail again
Alang in Gujarat is swinging back to life. Once world’s largest ship demolition centre, now a marginal player, Alang is slowly breathing li...
- Alang sets sail for new horizons
Newer shores await the world’s largest ship-breaking yard at Alang, as it is set for corporatisation.