There are many men there, thousands of them. The men are crawling all over the ships. The ships have been pulled out of the water using big winches that are sunk into the sand on the beach. They pull ...

The Exxon Valdez is one of thousands of ships dismantled at the Alang ship-breaking yard in western Indian state of Gujarat, India. AP Photo Gujarat, India, is home to one of the largest ship-breaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks ...

Two workers recently died on the shipbreaking beach of Alang, India. Two separate accidents took place at well-known scrapping yards that have applied to be included in the EU list of approved ship ...

The year 2025 saw a 21 per cent jump in the number of end-of-life ships that came to Gujarat’s Alang - one of the world’s largest ship-breaking yards - for recycling. In 2025, Alang saw the arrival of ...

The continuing slump in global shipping is translating into brisk business for scrap yards at Gujarat's coastal town of Alang in India. Alang, which receives one out of every two ships destined for ...