Can a new ship-recycling law help India regain its status as the world’s top dismantler of vessels?India used to be the world leader in the industry before competition from Bangladesh became too hot to handle.
Two Indian ship recycling yards selected for EU auditThe Indian ship recycling industry has typically followed substandard practices which dissuaded ship owners from using their services.
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...
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.
MSTC plans to set up ship recycling yard at GujaratMSTC has proposed to set up an integrated ship recycling yard under the Public Private Partnership route at Alang in Gujarat.
- 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...
- Dead ships conduit of hawala money in ship-breaking business in Alang
Dead ships in Indian waters are not just an environmental hazard but a security threat as well, security agencies have informed the governm...
- Slowdown at Alang yard pushes up scrap steel price
A slowdown at the country’s largest ship-breaking yard, Alang, has pushed up scrap steel prices by Rs 1,000 per tonne in two weeks.
- Alang breaks a record 5,000 ships since 1982
With as many as 130 ships being broken simultaneously, the Alang ship breaking yard has crossed the milestone of dismantling 5,000 ships be...
- 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...
- Market turmoil adds to shipbreaking industry woes
Indian ship breaking industry, which lost out to Bangladesh its No 1 position a few years back, has yet not got over the harrowing times.
- 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...