Ever wondered where cruise ships go to die? The process involves dangerous labor and environmental risks, but some ships are ...

Gujarat plans to recycle 15,000 ships at Alang over the next decade, enhancing its shipbreaking capacity and environmental standards.

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.

The Indian Register of Shipping (IRC), a non-profit classification service based in Mumbai, India, has opened an office in Alang, India. The new office will work to support IRC’s ship recycling ...

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ALANG, India -- When the big ships come to Asia to die, they often take lives with them. Upendra Shethi knows. He was one of an army of laborers hired by an Indian ship-breaking yard to strip the ...

How China Upended Life at India's Ship-Recycling Yards At the world's biggest ship-recycling yard at Alang, India, life is becoming harder as fewer ships arrive. Here's why. Photo: Karan Deep ...

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 ...

Ship recyclers in India and China will recycle eight vessels owned by Maersk Line. The ship recyclers have agreed in full to the A.P. Moller - Maersk Responsible Ship Recycling Standard. The deal ...

The Government of India signed a loan deal worth USD 76 million with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship ...