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	Wired 8.08: End of the Line
		The vessels dismantled at Alang are among the sturdiest workhorses of global business, but when they wash up here, it's their fate to be picked apart by swarms of men wielding acetylene torches and turned into nothing more than ghosts of their dynamic past.
		Alang's shipbreakers lease their plots from the Gujarat state government, buying vessels on the international market through brokers and traders in London, New York, and Hamburg.
		Alang's profit margins are razor-thin, so plot owners have become adept at squeezing every last rupee from their businesses.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.08/supertankers.html (736 words)

	Behind the hype, the real India - Marketplace by Bloomberg - International Herald Tribune
		ALANG, India On a debris-strewn beach in western India's Gujarat state, Kamlesh Kumar braves the extreme summer heat as he pries steel from the hull of the disused ferry Ajman Liner.
		That discrepancy is clear at Alang, where more than 200 workers have died in job-related accidents in the past 10 years, according to government figures.
		Alang, which opened in 1982, generates 300,000 tons of scrap steel a year, less than 1 percent of India's annual steel production of 38 million tons, said Vippin Aggarwal, general secretary of the Gujarat Ship Breakers Association.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/11/bloomberg/sxbreak.php (1099 words)

	Greenpeace Flays US
		Alang has been repeatedly panned by environmental groups like Greenpeace as probably the world's least safe shipbreaking yard, where workers are ruthlessly exploited, and deaths are routine.
		It included issues such as shipbreaking plots, beaching, permission for cutting, actual cutting operations, procedure for ships carrying toxic material, action to be taken in case of accidents and compensation for the next of kin of those killed or maimed.
		According to the board chief, the accidents that occur at Alang are of two types.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/india_alang.html (626 words)

	Alang - India - Mark Moxon, Travel Writer
		Stretching along the west coast of the Gulf of Camray some 50km southeast of Bhavnagar, Alang is the biggest ship-breaking yard in the world, and it has to be seen to be believed.
		Official statistics are hard to come by where Alang is concerned, not just because of the tendency of the locals to make things up, but because Alang has been the centre of human rights issues for some time and the government is more than a little sensitive about the whole thing.
		Alang is a suitable place for such crazy antics because it has a pretty eccentric tidal system.
	www.moxon.net /india/alang.html (1956 words)

	Toiling in India's ship graveyard for £1 a day \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Its critics say Alang is a modern Indian version of Victorian Britain's dark satanic mills: an engine of industrial growth which provides poorly paid jobs to destitute people in inhumane conditions.
		There is a hospital in Alang, but most workers travel the hour's drive to the nearest big town, Bhavnagar, for serious complaints.
		The environmentalists argue that the rusting hulks landed on Alang contain health hazards such as asbestos, used to insulate pipes, and tributyltin, used as a weather-guard in ship paint.
	www.guardian.co.uk /india/story/0,12559,1244396,00.html (1260 words)

	Alang is waiting for Clemenceau : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Environmentalists may be up in arms but many people in Alang are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the discarded and controversial French warship Clemenceau - for their bread and butter.
		Alang has for long been a booming graveyard of ships from the world over, a place where vessels are ripped apart for every little particle that will fetch money as scrap.
		Alang's unique geographical feature, with the highest ebb-and-high-tide difference, helped the ship breaking industry to grow and grow.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1603287,000900040003.htm (679 words)

	Basel Action Network (BAN)
		While scrapping a ship at one of the 183 shipbreaking yards at Alang in district Bhavnagar, Gujarat, he fell from a height of 10 metres, suffering multiple fractures in his legs.
		Alang receives ships from across the world -- even those which are not broken in the country of origin due to several environmental strictures, as shipbreaking involves a large number of dangerous pollutants including toxic wastes, oil, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS, which are extremely poisonous chemicals) and heavy metals.
		The Saurashtra region, which includes Alang, is facing a severe water crisis due to groundwater depletion.
	www.ban.org /Library/down_to_earth.html (2652 words)

	1998 Pulitzer Prizes-INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, Works
		"Alang," he says, "is a colony of the dead -- breathing, walking dead men." After the section fell, the owner of the yard called for Alang's single ambulance.
		Alang is so remote that few people other than workers or owners ever make their way here.
		Everywhere in Alang are men who are too hurt to work but are hanging on, hoping for a settlement from their bosses.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1998/investigative-reporting/works/day3/1.html (5039 words)

	Alang Ship Breaking Yard
		At Alang in the State of Gujarat in India, ships are beached up to the yard because of its peculiar marine conditions and high tide.
		Alang located on the western coast of Gulf of Cambay, in the western part of India, is the largest ship-recycling yard in the world.
		If we examine these bare facts from the ecological point of view, it amounts to saving of huge amount of non-cyclic and precious mineral reserves like coal, petroleum etc. It is therefore, one of the most lucrative industries as also contributing to ecological balance.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/alang-sby.htm (1348 words)

	Madan - Alang
		For me I had tried to reach Alang 2 years ago but had failed miserably, so even if I was taking a long 30 hour flight from Atlanta,US I had decided to take the jet lag on and go for the trek.
		Alang has a more easy route from the Ghatghar vilage side and mostly done from there..
		The tarverse to the Alang rockpatch almost kisses the alang massif as we wlak along and sometimmes enter the thick Karvi shrubs..after 15 min may be less from the col you get the firt sight of the steps and the rock patch you would climb or Jumaar.
	www.geocities.com /omapte/madanalang/madan_alang.html (1968 words)

	Alang Shipbreakers Face AIDS Crisis
		ALANG (BHAVNAGAR): Alang, Asia's biggest ship-breaking yard, could be sitting on a ticking AIDS bomb, waiting to explode.
		Alang has a population of around 40,000 male migrant labourers coming from Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
		The incidence of HIV positive cases surely is high in Alang, but the use of force will only destroy the rapport which we have created with the affected people and some sex workers over a period of time," says Dr D M Saxena, additional project director, GSACS.
	www.indiaresource.org /news/2003/3943.html (664 words)

	Toxics Link : News Alert : Alang crying for more ships to kill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alang Ship Breakers Association president Raj Bansal said the business had moved to Bangladesh and Pakistan because environment protection laws in the two countries were not as tough.
		Alang wears a ghostly skeletal look, not much different from the decommissioned ships that crowded its coast not too long ago.
		Another factor responsible for Alang's downfall is the unfavourable duty structure.
	www.toxicslink.org /nalert-view.php?id=18 (689 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		All this, is apart from the numerous cases of injuries and amputation caused at the workplace.
		There is no reliable data about Alang’s migrant population, but according to statistics of the Ship Recycling Industries Association (SRIA), there are two-lakh migrant workers employed in the Alang-Sosiya ship-breaking yard, a conglomeration of 180 ship-breaking plots.
		But till date, no ship beached in Alang had an inventory of potentially hazardous materials on-board; none of the ships were delivered in a ‘gas-free condition’, with all tanks cleaned and certified as such.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main13.asp?filename=Ne081305alang_the.asp (1334 words)

	De-constructing Alang - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alang, my friends explained to me, is a ship-breaking yard.
		The coast at Alang is blessed by an unusual quirk in the incoming tides.
		Alang is loosely made up of over 150 ship-breaking plots, connected by a series of link roads.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/Dec122004/sh3.asp (925 words)

	Desicritics.org: Visiting Alang, The Shipbreakers' Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Many of the 140-odd plots are empty on the Sisoya side, but once we cross to Alang there is a hum of activity, but as the taxi driver tells us, activity today is barely a quarter of what it was during the peak years in the late 90's.
		Alang provides for a good life for 20,000 workers, that is a lot of people.
		About Alang, the nearest city is Bhavnagar, which is also the nearest railhead, Alang itself has almost no permanent population other than the post officials and the few local villagers, most of the people there are labourers from Bihar, UP, MP, Rajasthan and other parts of Gujarat, a large number are tribals.
	desicritics.org /2006/08/01/034257.php (1495 words)

	On The Road To Alang - Peter Knego
		In early 1996, she was sold to Alang shipbreakers and renamed HERBERT for the delivery voyage to India, arriving on 13 June that year.
		When she arrived at Alang as the MARIAN 9 on 28 June, 2001, she was still filled with original fixtures and furniture.
		She arrived at Alang on 30 November 2003 and was finished off by April of 2004.
	www.maritimematters.com /mall_alang_pk.html (6213 words)

	Gujarat Maritime Board-Alang Ship Breaking Yard-Geographical Location
		Perfectly befitting the noble cause for which it is known and the immense potential it holds.
		The dedicated office of port officer at Alang and a separate department with committed staff of qualified administrators and engineers at head office, manage the day-to-day activities at Alang.
		A special computerised Alang Information System (AIS) is devised to facilitate speedy communication between Alang and the head office.
	www.gmbports.org /alang_prefedesti.htm (315 words)

	Trying Alang
		Trying Alang :: Long weekend sleeping in Pune, this is not right and so we started accumalating people with like minds who did not care much about the festival holiday and we found enough people to go on some pilot trek.
		All logistics were worked out and as per the plan we decided to go to Nashik from where to reach Ambevadi one has to alight at Ghoti on the Nashik- Bombay "NH3" (the worst highway I have ever seen).
		The idea of climbing Alang from Ambevadi is to reach the col/ghal/pass between Alang and Madan it can be identified by its prominent U like shape.
	www.geocities.com /omtrek/tryalang.html (989 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Alang yard back in news
		The State-owned Gujarat Maritime Board, which manages the ship-breaking yard and has given on lease plots of land in Alang to the ship-breakers, and the Alang Ship Recycling Industries Association are not even aware that another asbestos-laden ship has set sail for the Bhavnagar coast.
		Khatri claimed that the Greenpeace agitation against Alang was uncalled for since the Supreme Court committee of experts had been authorised to thoroughly review the situation before permitting the hazardous ships to come for breaking.
		Once Asia's largest ship-breaking yard, Alang was already condemned to functioning at less than 20 per cent of its capacity and such adverse campaign ignoring the ground realities would deal a crushing blow to the labour-intensive industry, he felt.
	www.hindu.com /2006/05/10/stories/2006051003241300.htm (662 words)

	::::: ALANG ::::: Bhavnagar.com
		Alang ship breaking yard located on the western coast of Gulf of Cambay, in the western part of India, is the largest ship-recycling yard in the world.
		Alang has become as one of the choicest ship-scrapping destinations for the ship owners around the world.
		A special computerized Alang Information System (AIS) is devised to facilitate speedy communication between Alang and the head office.
	www.bhavnagar.com /CTAlang.asp (316 words)

	Industrial safety concerns in the ship breaking industry / Alang-India.
		ASSBY is located on the coast of Bhavnagar district and in the Gulf of Cambay, a distance of 56 km south from Bhavnagar city.
		The uproar on the Alang situation in the Western media is uncalled for, as the situation at Alang is within control and not beyond repair.
		Alang is certainly the best location and neither Pakistan nor Bangladesh can compete with Alang.
	www.csiwisepractices.org /?read=85 (1188 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		India-bound Clemenceau, the warship that left French shores on December 30, is closing in on its port of dismantling — Alang in Gujarat, regarded as the world’s largest ship-breaking yard.
		In April 2005, the Danish environment ministry had written to its Indian counterpart to warn that a toxic ship-for-scrap carrying carcinogenic asbestos insulation had left for Alang to be dismantled.
		This time around, neither the GPCB nor GMB is willing to talk to the media, but sources from Alang suggest that the ground is being prepared to allow the ship to come in and get beached.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main16.asp?filename=Ne020406Alang_comes.asp (804 words)

	IndianExpress.com :: It’s official: Asbestos is crippling Alang workers
		In addition to this, the report highlights how the “fatal accident rate” in Alang is almost six times that in the mining industry, considered to be the most unsafe.
		Data on fatal accidents during the last 10 years show an average annual incidence of fatal acidents in ship breaking to be 2 per 1000 workers while the figure for the mining industry (considered to be the most unsafe) is 0.34 per 1000.
		Alang is a 10-km ship-breaking yard in Gulf of Cambay in Gujarat.
	www.indianexpress.com /story/12101.html (914 words)

	CBC - the fifth estate - The Big Break - The Story
		Every year, hundreds of hulking vessels around the world are retired by their owners and sold to metal scrappers on the beaches of developing countries.
		A landmark Greenpeace report (see left) concluded that Alang was an environmental disaster zone where fatal accidents were a regular occurrence.
		We followed the Trader and Venture's final odyssey all the way to the muddied beaches of Alang, India - the world's most notorious shipbreaking yard, where tens of thousands of poorly paid and poorly protected workers toil in some of the most hazardous working conditions anywhere.
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/bigbreak/story.html (806 words)

	The Hindu : National : New policy for Alang yard
		GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat Government on Wednesday declared a new policy for the allotment of plots at Alang to try to revive Asia's largest ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar district in the Saurashtra region.
		Alang, the country's only ship-breaking yard which once earned crores for the Central exchequer, was dying a slow death because it had not been able to compete with other newly developing yards in China and Bangladesh.
		The business was down to less than 20 per cent of the average turn around of about 300 ships a year that came for dismantling at the 173 plots at Alang owned by the Gujarat Maritime Board and given on lease to the ship-breakers.
	www.hindu.com /2006/10/19/stories/2006101905741400.htm (410 words)

	Alang - Ship Breaking yard on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Alang, 50 km from Bhavnagar in east Gujarat was once India's largest ship breaking yard.
		But recently the French ship Blue Lady was allowed to enter Alang by the court, paving way for a new begining.
		Alang has been India's biggest ship breaking yard for more than a few decades now.
	www.flickr.com /photos/soumik/212399437 (336 words)

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