Activities at the Alang ship recycling yard in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, have come to halt for more than two weeks, with transporters working with ship breakers going on strike for the past 21 days ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks ...

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

A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led to an influx of rigs and tanks in Gujarat's Alang for dismantling. (Image: IE) A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led ...

Presenting a very ambitious plan for ship recycling on the inaugural day of the “India Maritime Week 2025” at Mumbai on Monday, Gujarat government said it plans to recycle 15,000 ageing ships at Alang ...

The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...

Workers and their supervisors at the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang, in coastal South Gujarat, are busy these days. For someone who had seen this graveyard of ships a decade ago with its ...

I have recently visited the ship-breaking yard in Alang, which is to receive the old aircraft carrier Clemenceau. I have recently visited the ship-breaking yard in Alang, which is to receive the old ...

In the stratosphere of global real estate north of $30 million, or multiples of that, the Cannes and Cote d'Azur markets are ticklishly fickle in that, after a purchase, even the savviest buyers can ...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...