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When big ships go out of service, they're got to a graveyard in India - but work there has ground to a halt as oxygen is diverted to fight COVID INSIDER 3 hrs ago cteh@businessinsider.com (Cheryl Teh) © AP Photo 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 yards in the world. Workers there deconstruct and strip decommissioned ships using oxygen-fueled torches and turn them into scrap metal. But oxygen is being diverted...

news UK cruise ships end up as scrap on Indian beach © Viramdevsinh Gohil The Marco Polo was built in the 1960s and was one of the world's last surviving ocean cruise liners Two UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated. Ships at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK. But months after being sold at auction to buyers outside the UK they were then sold on as scrap for double the price. As they were set to be used for further trading when they ...

BBC News By Kate West & Margot Gibbs BBC News image copyrightVIRAMDEVSINH GOHIL image captionThe Marco Polo was built in the 1960s and was one of the world's last surviving ocean cruise liners Two UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated. Ships at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK. But months after being sold at auction to buyers outside the UK they were then sold on as scrap for double the price. As they were set to be used for further tr...

Two cruise ships from the UK have been scrapped in India at a site known as the world’s largest “ship graveyard”, despite regulations designed to prevent the practice and serious environmental concerns. It is illegal for developed countries like the UK to send ships for scrapping in developing countries, with the wrecks considered hazardous waste and requiring specialist handling at EU-approved facilities. The two ships identified in a new BBC...

Two Korean shipping firms were world’s worst shipbreaking dumpers in 2020: NGO Two South Korean shipping companies have won the dubious distinction of being named the world’s worst shipbreaking dumpers in 2020, as they breached global safety standards causing injuries and even the deaths of workers in developing countries in South Asia as they dismantled toxic end-of-life ships on beaches instead of safer shipbreaking yards, a non-government organization revealed Feb. 2. The export of end-of-life ships from developed to developing countries are banned by the United Nation Environment Prog...