It’s known as the graveyard of ships, a place where unskilled workers break down ships & vessels for scrap metal, with mostly nothing more than your average DIY hand tools.
Maintaining an empty vessel or ship is extremely costly, and a lot of the times it’s cheaper to simply strip the ship for scrap. Ship owners worldwide send their ships to Alang to be broken down, because of the cheaper labor and lack of local laws preventing such a thing.
One of the major concerns with the shipyard is that the nearest full service hospital is 50 kilometers away, and sometimes workers who gained serious injuries have to wait a full day to get medical attention.
Because the workers are not trained in breaking down large ships, they often cause dangerous chemicals like mercury to spill onto the beach and into the ocean.
Alang is located at 21°24 43N 72°12 10E, on the Indian coast.
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