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Alang sees big dip in ships, may be worst in years

January 01, 2023 1:11 am

According to available data for the first three quarters in the last six years, 152 ships beached at Alang in 2021-22, 139 in 2020-21, 141 in 2019-20, 170 in 2018-19, 166 in 2017-18, and 195 in 2016-17.

NGT disposes of plea challenging govt clearance to upgrade ship recycling yard

November 28, 2020 6:06 pm

The EC was challenged by Conservation Action Trust, a Mumbai-based non-profit organisation, saying the expansion of the ship-breaking yard by “beaching method” was regarded “unsafe and environmentally polluting”.

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Explained: Here is how INS Viraat will be taken apart at the Alang shipyard

October 06, 2020 10:03 am

INS Viraat is an old ship that was built in the 1940s. It completed 30 years in the Navy and had earlier served the British navy as HMS Hermes in 1959-84. It will be brought ashore sometime next month, before being dismantled.

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A graveyard goes silent

October 18, 2015 7:57 am

For years, ageing liners and cruise ships have queued up at Alang, where they would be dismantled and sold for scrap. That’s changing.

GMB asks Platinum II agent to remove the wreck ship from Alang shipyard

January 02, 2010 2:44 am

The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has asked the agent of the Platinum II ship that contains hazardous material and radioactive substances to remove it from Gopnath near Alang where it is anchored.