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Alang shipbreaking yard, world's largest, faces worst-ever crisis as vessel arrivals hit record lowAlang, India's largest shipbreaking yard, is experiencing its worst downturn. Geopolitical tensions and extended ship lifespans have led to...
Ship-breaking capacity at Alang in Gujarat to be doubled: Sarbananda Sonowal"With the proposed expansion plan of doubling the capacity of yards, the employment opportunity will also get doubled, bringing more econom...
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...
India may adopt Hong Kong convention for green ship recyclingThe government plans to nearly double India’s ship-recycling capacity by 2024 to about nine MnGT.
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.
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...
Infrastructure push: Indian yards to demolish vessels to increase scrapped metal supplyThe shipping market is weak and it is wise to replace older and inefficient vessels, said delegates at SeaAsia, a three-day conference and ...
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.
Five killed in blast at Alang ship breaking yardPrima facie, the blast occurred due to sudden gas leakage when ship-breaking activity was in progress, the officer said.
SC allows moving INS Vikrant to Darukhana ship-breaking yard"We have only considered the shifting of ship from the Naval dockyard," a bench of justices B S Chauhan and A K Sikri said.
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.
- Alang ship-breakers face Rs 2,000-cr hit from Rupee fall
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.
- 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...
- UN team visits Alang ship-breaking yard
A team from the International Maritime Organisation visited the Alang ship-breaking yard and examined the safety and environmental safeguar...
- India to press for stricter norms on ship-breaking
India refuses to be a dump yard for hazardous ships. During the forthcoming inter-sessional working group meeting at the International Mari...