I was so amazed to see these old ships being recycled for their metal in a shipyard in Bangladesh. This ship breaking yard was incredible.
The safety standards are notably low: no boots and hard hats are worn.
The ship breaking industry grew steadily in Bangladesh through the 1980s and, by the middle of th Bangladesh ranked number 2 in the world by tonnage scrapped. In 2008, there were 26 ship breaking yards in the area, and in 2009 there were 10 times. From 2004 to 2008, this place was the largest ship breaking yard in the world. However, by 2012 it had dropped from half to a fifth of worldwide ship-breaking.
At one stage the industry was a tourist attraction, but outsiders are no longer welcome due to its po safety record; a local watchdog group claims that one worker dies a week and one is injured a day on average.
Workers have no protective gear or financial security. In 2014, shipping company Hapag Lloyd followed an earlier decision by Maersk to stop using this yard for breaking its old ships, despite the the costs being higher elsewhere.
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