India used to be the world leader in the industry before competition from Bangladesh became too hot to handle.

Finance Minister Saurabh Patel said the state government and Gujarat Maritime Board formulated the policy to promote the industrial activit...

HC directed central government to file its reply to PILwhich sought labourers' safety at Alang ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar district.

Prima facie, the blast occurred due to sudden gas leakage when ship-breaking activity was in progress, the officer said.

Fugitive Dawood Ibrahim and his aides have a major stake in the multi-million dollar ship-breaking industry in Gujarat, according to an int...

Dawood Ibrahim and his aides have a major stake in the multimillion-dollar ship-breaking industry in India, according to a report.

Ship-breakers are likely to bear a total loss of Rs 2,000 crore for the fiscal year as the rupee fell by over 18% in the last seven months.

Indian shipbreaking activities , though, have registered an encouraging performance during the first six months of the calendar year, India...

There is no cause for worry about environmental pollution, according to Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) officials, who echo the ...

The increasing ship-breaking activity at the country’s largest ship-breaking yard, Alang, may cause a fall in steel prices, with hundreds o...

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...

A team from the International Maritime Organisation visited the Alang ship-breaking yard and examined the safety and environmental safeguar...

Alang in Gujarat is swinging back to life. Once world’s largest ship demolition centre, now a marginal player, Alang is slowly breathing li...

They say the recent court order violates its earlier ruling against such ships.

India refuses to be a dump yard for hazardous ships. During the forthcoming inter-sessional working group meeting at the International Mari...

Newer shores await the world’s largest ship-breaking yard at Alang, as it is set for corporatisation.

Alang is expected to gain immensely from the ship’s beaching. It will bring in a revenue of Rs 25 crore into state government’s kitty in ta...