Bangladesh's ship recycling industry is the deadliest in the world

[Levina]

Thought I will share it here after I watched the video,

https://twitter.com/x/status/814893836589633537

 

[Matirpola]

Well if you Indians pay all these workers and take care of their families, they can stop working shitty jobs and stay at home!

 

[Indika]

Thought I will share it here after I watched the video,

https://twitter.com/x/status/814893836589633537

Well gujarat has good reputation as well.

 

[Levina]

Well gujarat has good reputation as well.

Indeed.
In fact Chittagong in BD,Alang in India and Gadani (Balochistan) in Pakistan are famous for ship breaking activities. 80% of the world's ship breaking activities are done in the subcontinent.
Low labour cost and low compliance cost is the reason, China and Turkey are better in comparison.
BD's problem is that despite being a tiny country it has the largest ship breaking industry in the world.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Ship breaking is never a safe thing. What's all the fuss about? Being the largest ship breaker has its perks and downsides

 

[Bilal9]

Alang is an impoverished third world shantytown of 40,000 on the Arabian Sea, Alang also has few environmental or safety restrictions to protect the villagers who dismantle the ships (which have been run aground on the beach) from workplace dangers and toxic substances such as PCBs and asbestos. An average of one worker a day dies from falls and other accidents while others are expected to succumb to future cancers.

This place gives Chittagong a run for its money......:-(

Conditions are bad all over the subcontinent.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Not only Ship Recycling,in fact Electronic Goods recycling is similar hazardous and Subcontinent is forefront of it due to cheap labour.

 

[Zabaniyah]

I wouldn't dispute it. There needs to be a proper way to salvage those things. Who thought ripping things apart can be so dangerous?