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  2. Aliaga Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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    Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard is the world's fourth largest ship breaking yard located across a 10 km (6.2 mi) long beachfront at Aliaga, Turkey The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots. [ 1 ]

  3. Alang Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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    The Alang Ship Breaking Yard is the world's largest ship breaking yard, responsible for dismantling a significant number of retired freight and cargo ships salvaged from around the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located on the Gulf of Khambhat by the town of Alang , in the district of Bhavnagar in the state of Gujarat , India .

  4. Ship breaking - Wikipedia

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    Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

  5. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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    Chittagong Ship breaking yard. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard (Bengali: সীতাকুণ্ড জাহাজ ভাঙ্গা এলাকা, romanized: Sītākuṇḍa Jāhāja Bhāṅgā Ēlākā) is located in Faujdarhat, Sitakunda Upazila, Bangladesh along the 18 kilometres (11 mi) Sitakunda coastal strip, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Chittagong. [1]

  6. List of ship breaking yards - Wikipedia

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    Ship breaking yard Country City Province Founded Plots L (km) ref Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard: Bangladesh: Chittagong: Chittagong: 1960 18 [1] [2] [3]Alang Ship Breaking Yard

  7. Ship graveyard - Wikipedia

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    A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos ) are also known as ...

  8. Gadani Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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    Gadani ship-breaking yard is the world's third largest ship breaking yard located across a 10 km (6.2 mi) long beachfront at Gadani, Pakistan. The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots. [ 1 ] It is located about 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Karachi , the largest city of Pakistan .

  9. New Carissa - Wikipedia

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    New Carissa was a Philippine-flagged [2] [3] dry bulk freighter optimized for carriage of woodchips (used for paper pulp production). The vessel was built by Imabari Shipbuilding of Japan using an all-steel construction and was laid down on 30 August 1989.