CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh/SINGAPORE, May 19 (Reuters) - Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis ...

Workers in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards lose 20 years of life expectancy due to dangerous working conditions while local communities and the environment suffer from pollution, reveals a new report ...

A fresh row over scrap steel has put Bangladesh’s ship-breaking industry into peril. The ship-breakers have raised the price of scrap steel by Tk 1000 (US $15.79) per metric ton and decided to sell ...

As the ship recycling industry is heavily concentrated in Sitakunda, authorities decided to establish the board’s office in Chattogram rather than continuing operations from the Ministry of Industries ...

Industry representatives highlighted the sector’s prospects, ongoing challenges, and the need for technical assistance and investment from US firms.

What happens when a ship dies? They are sent to hazardous graveyards in places like India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan to be dismantled and sold as scrap. However, the process is labour intensive ...

ALANG, India -- When the big ships come to Asia to die, they often take lives with them. Upendra Shethi knows. He was one of an army of laborers hired by an Indian ship-breaking yard to strip the ...

CHITTAGONG: Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis out of a life of poverty. Instead of ...