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 ...

A highlight of Kochi-Muziris Biennale is Himanshu Jamod's deconstruction of the myth and infamy about the world's largest ship-dismantling hub in Gujarat.

I've had the pleasure of becoming friends with acclaimed cruise travel journalist and ocean liner historian Peter Knego thanks to our shared travels and close proximity as residents of San Diego, ...

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 ...

Alang experiences a 21% rise in end-of-life ship arrivals in 2025, yet remains underutilized at only 25% capacity.

The Japan-backed ambitious $22-million plan of the Gujarat government to upgrade the Alang Ship Recycling Yard, which is the largest in Asia, has run into rough weather with recyclers finding the ...

ALANG, India/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In the world's biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India's Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of ...

RINA Services, an Italian firm that provides classification, certification, testing and inspection services to organisations in the marine, environment and energy, infrastructures, transport and ...

The SS Norway, now renamed the 'Blue Lady', is anchored just off Pipavav Port while she waits to be inspected by a committee appointed by the Indian Supreme Court, which will assess the pollution risk ...

ALANG, India (Reuters) - A global economic slowdown has hit industries ranging from automakers to investment banks, but in one small town on India's western coast, business is at record levels and ...