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Alang Shipbreaking Site

Alang Shipbreaking Site

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zwetkoff, on June 23, 2008, said:

wikipedia says: "The welcome sign at Alang controversially reads "Safety is our motto".Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat, India. It is the leading centre of the worldwide ship breaking and recycling industry.

The shipyards at Alang recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world.[citation needed] The yards are located on the Gulf of Khambat, 50 kilometres southeast of Bhavnagar. Visiting Westerners complain that before shipbreaking began there in June 1983 the beach at Alang was pristine and unspoiled.[citation needed] However, locals say that the work provides a reasonably paid job by local standards, with a steady income used to support their families.[citation needed]

Large supertankers, car ferries and container ships are beached during high tide, and as the tide recedes, hundreds of manual laborers dismantle each ship, salvaging what they can and reducing the rest into scrap. Tens of thousands of jobs are supported by this activity and millions of tons of steel are recovered.[citation needed]

The salvage yards at Alang have generated controversy about working conditions, workers' living conditions, and the impact on the environment. One major problem is that despite many serious work-related injuries, the nearest full service hospital is 50 kilometres away in Bhavnagar. Alang itself is served by a small Red Cross hospital that offers only limited services.

Almost one in every six workers could be suffering from an early stage of asbestosis and are at serious risk of contracting lung cancer, according to an expert committee set up by India’s Supreme Court.[citation needed]

Alang became the center of an international controversy when the Supreme Court of India temporarily prohibited the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau from entering the port in January 2006.[1]"

right at that time, in january 2006, i reached alang, trying to get into this huge, bizarre erea. national and international newsmagazines and papers had picked up the case of the french aircraft carrier right then. due to that fact, the security regulations were very strict and my official application to get in of course got stuck hopelessly in indian bureaucracy.. as you can see, i still managed to get in - but only for a very short time. a far too short time actually to see much. but what i saw was very bizarre and very impressive..

wikipedia in deutsch: Alang ist eine Küstenstadt im indischen Bundesstaat Gujarat. Es ist das Zentrum der weltweiten Schiffsverschrottungsindustrie.

Nach Angaben von Greenpeace werden weltweit pro Jahr ca. 700 größere Schiffe außer Dienst gestellt. Die Werften in Alang demontieren rund 50 % dieser veralteten Schiffe. Die Arbeitsstätten befinden sich im Golf von Khambhat, 50 Kilometer südlich von Bhavnagar. Als die Verschrottung alter Schiffe im Juni 1983 begann, war Alang noch eine unberührte und saubere Meeresküste. Heute ist das Gelände schwerwiegend mit Asbest und anderen giftigen Stoffen verseucht.

Großschiffe wie Supertanker, Bulkcarrier, Fähr- und Containerschiffe werden bei Flut mit eigener Maschinenkraft auf den Strand gesetzt. Beim Einsetzen der Ebbe beginnen zahlreiche Arbeiter und Handwerker die Schiffe von Hand zu demontieren. Zum Zerschneiden werden Schneidbrenner verwendet. Da die Medien in Rohrleitungen nicht restlos abgelassen werden können, kommt es immer wieder zu gefährlichen Verpuffungen oder Explosionen. Es gibt am Strand keine Kräne und anderes schweres Gerät zum Heben von Teilen. Was verwertet werden kann, wird verwertet; der Rest wird als Schrott an Stahlwerke verkauft. Zehntausende von spärlich bezahlten Arbeitsplätzen hängen von dieser Industrie ab.

Die Abbruchstätte in Alang hat Kontroversen über Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen der Beschäftigten und auch über Umweltschäden ausgelöst. Eines der großen Probleme ist, dass sich trotz vieler schwerer Arbeitsunfälle das nächstgelegene, voll ausgestattete Spital im fünfzig Kilometer entfernten Bhavnagar befindet. In Alang selber besteht nur ein kleines Spital des Roten Kreuzes, welches äußerst eingeschränkt Unfallopfer behandeln kann. Im Januar 2006 stand Alang im Mittelpunkt einer internationalen Kontroverse als der Supreme Court of India zeitweilig dem französischen Flugzeugträger Clemenceau den Zugang zu den indischen Hoheitgewässern verweigerte.

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SUNIL PATEL,NANDIDA, on February 25, 2009, said:

good photo

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bswanplsbo, on May 23, 2010, said:

The vessel on the right in your photo is the former Queen of Victoria of BC Ferries. It had obviously been modified and re-painted before it ever made it to Alang. Her 3 other sisters, Queen of Esquimalt, Queen of Saanich, and Queen of Vancouver, were also retired recently, and may meet a similar fate, although probably not at Alang.

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zwetkoff, on May 26, 2010, said:

thats incredible bswanplsbo, i never expected to meet someone who knows one of the vessels name and history! thank you very muich for your interesting comment! best regards, michael

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