Of the 196 ships sold for scrap in the first quarter of 2017, 65 percent ended up on beaches in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, said South Asia quarterly update of NGO Shipbreaking Platform. 128 ships ...

A surge in the scrapping of sanctioned tankers in India is fuelling a new subsector of the ship recycling industry. As ...

Along a stretch of beach in northwest India, a dormant graveyard for ships is stirring again, driven by an aging “dark fleet” of tankers ferrying restricted oil – just as the country’s dependence on ...

Danish shipping firm Maersk has announced it will send two decommissioned vessels to a facility in Alang, India, that it says can comply with safety and environmental responsibility best practices.

"Every ship has an expiry date," declares Himanshu Jamod explaining the working of the world's largest ship dismantling yard in Alang, Gujarat. Jamod should know. The 32-year-old visual artist born in ...