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India achieves MIV 2030 ship-recycling goal ahead of scheduleIndia has surged to become the world's leading ship-recycling nation in 2025, achieving this milestone ahead of schedule. This significant ...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Indian yards to demolish vessels for scrapped metal supplyThe shipping industry is expected to see a downtrend in demand through to 2017-18, according to Sefine Shipayrd's Gungor.
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 ...
Directorate General of Foreign Trade wants to treat leftover fuel as part of the shipThe Directorate General of Foreign Trade is mulling to relax the penalty on bunker extracted out of the vessels coming for scrapping.
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.
- Ship-breaking industry busy striving to maintain top form
Undercurrents notwithstanding, the domestic players are busy working towards retaining current position as world's top ship-breaking nation.
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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Blue Lady's fate uncertain as activists to challenge SC
They say the recent court order violates its earlier ruling against such ships.
- 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...
- Norwegian liner `Blue Lady’ to light up shipbreaking in Alang
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...