India - Ship Breaking

(17 Feb 1995) RR9507/D - INDIA: SHIP BREAKING (dur: 6 min 4 sec/eng. sot: 1 min 2 sec) The Indian beach of Alang near Bhavnagar in Western Guajarat State is one of the largest ship breaking yards in the world. At any one time more than a hundred vessels from small cruisers to massive oil tankers can be seen scattered in pieces across a five kilometre stretch of the shore. Working a gruelling seventy hours a week in soaring temperatures crews of Indian workers have turned the place into a vast and eerie ship's cemetery. SHOWS Alang, Guajarat: workers' cottages and ship breaking yard; crane; workers; ships berthed at sea; workers carrying metal sheets; welders cutting metal with ships in background; people knocking out rivets; crane lifting steel plate; welding; sorting out metals; piles of ferrous metals; non-ferrous metals; wires; ships and yard; man sweeping tin plate; end of ship's hull being cut; engines; sorting and cutting cables; cutting crew on ship; cutting superstructure; superstructure falls away; workers on ship's stern; section topples over; Bhavnagar: metal being cut at strip mill; blast furnace with metal being extracted; Alang: shop selling wood; buyers inspecting tea urns; man carrying wood off in cart; Bhavangar: Maritime Board building, Chairman of Gujarat Maritime Board H.P. Jamdar sot, partially underlaid; Alang Yard: welder, sparks from superstructure, side of tanker collapses, oil burning from hidden tanker, yard with work in progress (WTN). Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...