Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...
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Alang experiences a 21% rise in end-of-life ship arrivals in 2025, yet remains underutilized at only 25% capacity.
Workers and their supervisors at the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang, in coastal South Gujarat, are busy these days. For someone who had seen this graveyard of ships a decade ago with its ...
Presenting a very ambitious plan for ship recycling on the inaugural day of the “India Maritime Week 2025” at Mumbai on Monday, Gujarat government said it plans to recycle 15,000 ageing ships at Alang ...
The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...
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Haresh Parmar, the owner of Somnath Ship Recycling Company, the world’s biggest ship breaking yard Alang in Gujarat, has not received a ship for recycling in the past 20 months. The iconic INS Viraat ...
A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led to an influx of rigs and tanks in Gujarat's Alang for dismantling. (Image: IE) A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led ...
MANILA, Philippines — Panaderia Dimas-Alang becomes a hundred-year-old bakery this year and its pugon (wood-fired oven), perhaps the last of its kind in Manila, still churns out well-loved Filipino ...
In the budget for 2021-22, the central government had said that it would double the ship recycling capacity in the country by 2024. The government has decided to hold back its plans to double ship ...
Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...