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 ...

Danish shipping firm Maersk has announced it will send two decommissioned vessels to a facility in Alang, India, that it says can comply with safety and environmental responsibility best practices.

The year 2025 saw a 21 per cent jump in the number of end-of-life ships that came to Gujarat’s Alang - one of the world’s largest ship-breaking yards - for recycling. In 2025, Alang saw the arrival of ...

"Every ship has an expiry date," declares Himanshu Jamod explaining the working of the world's largest ship dismantling yard in Alang, Gujarat. Jamod should know. The 32-year-old visual artist born in ...

How China Upended Life at India's Ship-Recycling Yards At the world's biggest ship-recycling yard at Alang, India, life is becoming harder as fewer ships arrive. Here's why. Photo: Karan Deep ...