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	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.
		For the workers in developing nations the opportunity to work in the shipbreaking yard often means the only chance at survival.
		The only shipbreaking yard in Canada is located in Port Colborne, Ontario.
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/bigbreak/story.html (806 words)

	Basel Action Network
		When such ships destined for shipbreaking involve a transboundary movement, i.e., move from an area under the national jurisdiction of one state to or through an area under the national jurisdiction of another state, they are subject to the Basel Convention (and other applicable regional hazardous waste trade regimes).
		Most of the shipbreaking is taking place in Asia, e.g., India, where the conditions are documented to be exceptionally dangerous and damaging to the health of the workers, surrounding community, and the environment.
		In most cases, and certainly with respect to shipbreaking yards in Asia where the majority of shipbreaking is done, the application of the Convention renders such operations illegal and a criminal offense.
	www.ban.org /subsidiary/shipbreaking_and.html (1827 words)

	writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But unlike the major shipbreaking site in Alang, which is the world's largest, and a site west of Karachi, it is still possible to visit the wrecking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
		The shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh was born somewhat accidently in 1965, when a vessel was driven ashore by a devastating cyclone at Sitakundu, just north of Chittagong.
		The shipbreaking yards will have a steady supply of ships for years to come, as the world's major tanker lines will replace their obsolete fleet.
	www.christophkohler.com /ARTICLES/Shipbreaking_Bangladesh_full.htm (1326 words)

	Norwegian Photographer : Rune Larsen
		In the early 1970s shipbreaking was a highly mechanized industrial operation carried out in the shipyards of Great Britain, Taiwan, Mexico, Spain and Brazil.
		To maximum profits, ship owners send their vessels to the scrap yards of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and Vietnam, where health and safety standards are virtually ignored and the workers are desperate for jobs.
		Bangladesh is heavily dependent on the shipbreaking industry for its domestic requirement of steel and does not enforce any restrictions on the industry for environmental and worker's safety.
	www.drik.net /rune/shipbreaking.htm (571 words)

	[ Where do the “floating dustbins” end up ? - WWW.FIDH.ORG ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shipbreaking exemplifies both the potentialities and the dangers of an increasingly globalised economy.
		In this respect, shipbreaking provides employment for tens of thousands of workers throughout the Asian continent; it also provides for large quantities of steel, and thus acts as an alternative to the non-renewable resource of ore, while representing an important source of supply for second-hand equipment.
		The dangers inherent to shipbreaking are now well known and well documented: it is a highly dangerous activity, which exposes the labour force to risks of death, serious injury and chronic health problems through the exposure to toxic substances.
	www.fidh.org /article.php3?id_article=1825 (649 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Toiling in India's ship graveyard for £1 a day
		Shipbreaking is one of India's economic success stories, a £270m business that provides steel for the country's booming industry and much-needed jobs.
		Second, environmental and safety regulations that had made shipbreaking unviable in the west were ignored and unenforced in places like Alang.
		Shipbreaking is a green industry, say its supporters, as almost all the reusable materials are recovered.
	www.guardian.co.uk /india/story/0,12559,1244396,00.html (1188 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Shipbreaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shipbreaking recovery of steel materials, copper based alloys, usable machinery parts and equipment, fittings, furniture and other things from used and condemned, sunk or abandoned ships.
		Shipbreaking and dismantling units that operate on commercial basis around the port numbered 55 in 1985.
		The main process in shipbreaking is the gas cutting operation on a sea beach.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/S_0347.htm (537 words)

	Deadly cost of shipbreaking \| Greenpeace International
		We believe that unless the ships are decontaminated prior to their arrival at shipbreaking yards, the shipping industry is, in practice, breaking established principles of international law.
		We know current voluntary proposals are not enough to prevent pollution or to improve the dangerous working conditions in shipbreaking yards.
		Recently a delegation of people involved in shipbreaking in Asia toured Europe to call for an urgent solution to the environmental and health problems associated with the industry.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/deadly-cost-of-shipbreaking (591 words)

	Shipbreaking Site English
		Greenpeace and the European NGO Platform on shipbreaking celebrate a further victory in the battle to prevent toxic end-of-life ships being sent to developing countries for shipbreaking.
		The vessel, until recently known as the Ferbec, is presently on its way to a shipbreaking yard in South Asia after having left the Port of Montreal without prior notification to government officals as required under international law.
		Shipbreaking is an enormous danger to people and the environment.
	www.greenpeaceweb.org /shipbreak (7182 words)

	Basel Action Network
		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.
		The shipbreakers are in constant touch with politicians.
		US shipbreaking yards lobbied for the government to relax the laws and allow them to send ships to other countries for scrapping.
	www.ban.org /Library/down_to_earth.html (2621 words)

	ASIL Insights:Alleged Secret Detentions of Terrorism Suspects
		[10] The French government also noted that engineers and supervisors from the Indian shipbreaking companies received training in asbestos removal in France in March 2005, and that the removal and dismantling is to take place under the supervision of French companies, in accordance with applicable international standards.
		[12] These shipbreaking sites lack dry docks; they utilize extreme tidal changes occurring twice a month, at the full moon and new moon, which allow for ships to be driven at full speed onto the shore and then dismantled on the beach.
		Shipbreaking allows for ships to be recycled, contributing a significant amount of steel –22000 tons in the Clemenceau alone– to the economies of “shipbreaking” countries.
	www.asil.org /insights/2006/02/insights060224.html (3265 words)

	Muck and Brass: Shipbreaking at Preston, Barrow & Morecambe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Muck and Brass: Shipbreaking at Preston, Barrow and Morecambe
		The hundreds of men working at Lancashire's shipbreaking yards risked life and limb to deconstruct imposing vessels, from paddle steamers and liners to submarines and 20,000 ton warships.
		Today, large-scale shipbreaking is undertaken in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Far East where the poor working conditions and environmental hazards remain.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/exhibitions/muck (712 words)

	Maritime - Shipbreaking - OSHA Safety Fach Sheet
		Shipbreaking is the process of dismantling an obsolete vessel’s structure for scrapping or
		Shipbreaking is a challenging process, due to the structural complexity of the ships and the many
		Shipbreaking operations expose workers to a wide range of hazards or workplace activities or
	osha-safety.org /osha_maritime_Shipbreaking.asp (466 words)

	SHIPPING INDUSTRY RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS IN BANGLADESHI SHIPBREAKING YARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Both explosions, aboard MV Dena on May 31 and aboard MV Tanko on June 14 at the Chittagong shipbreaking yard, occurred because the owners of Dena and Tanko failed to decontaminate their ships of gas and oil to ensure the safety of workers operating with torch-cutting equipment.
		Following increased deaths due to explosions and fires in Indian shipbreaking yards, the Indian Government mandated a "gas-free for hotworks" certificate that ensured that the insides of ships were decontaminated of explosive gas or oil seams before import into the country.
		The Governments of India and Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and other shipbreaking nations should realise that if they want their shipbreaking industries to survive, they have to apply the "Polluter Pays" principle and ensure that the ship owners and operators are held responsible and financially liable for the safety of workers," said Jayaraman.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/toxics/2000jun20.html (540 words)

	AJR - The Sun Breaks the Silence on Shipbreaking
		There were troubles, he heard, with the scrapping of the USS Coral Sea in the city's harbor: The man in charge was ready to abandon the effort and transport the ship to India.
		He revealed a trail of shipbreaking lawsuits across the country that nobody had seemed to notice.
		When "The Shipbreakers" ran a year and a half later, in December 1997, it detailed dangers to workers and the environmentcaused by the industry from Baltimore to Calcutta.
	www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=2296 (963 words)

	Valley Morning Star Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He and others planning the program are fully aware that the shipbreaking industry is under fire from environmental groups because of practices taking place in Third World countries, especially India, where the industry has moved to avoid environmental and labor laws that would be enforced in western nations, Hammerschmidt said.
		The jobs shipbreaking provides in India pay very little, but something is better than nothing, he said.
		"Shipbreaking is cutting ships into small, small pieces," he said.
	www.valleystar.com /localnews_more.php?id=51921_0_19_0_C (759 words)

	Planet Ark : Union, Greenpeace campaign against Indian shipbreaking
		Shipbreaking poses large environmental risks because of the toxic waste remaining in ships, a Greenpeace report released at the news conference said.
		The ITF, which represents 553 transport unions in 140 countries, has been fighting against the FOC system, which allows owners to register their ships in countries where labour, safety and environmental laws are less stringent.
		The Greenpeace report said that until the 1970s, shipbreaking was done in Britain, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Taiwan and shifted to China in the following decade.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3742 (529 words)

	IMF -
		Scrapping ships is one of the most work-intensive and dangerous jobs there is. All in all, the highly hazardous shipbreaking industry – including all branches with a direct link to the scrapping operations – employs over 160,000 workers in India alone.
		IMF and its affiliates are working together to improves the lives of shipbreaking workers.
		Shipbreaking workers tell of deadly risks and plead for reform.
	www.imfmetal.org /main/index.cfm?n=47&l=2&c=8268 (232 words)

	US move to impose harsh terms foiled: Shipbreaking -DAWN - Business; 02 May, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A move by Western nations at a recent IMO meeting to link shipbreaking activity with environmental protection such as certification for making ships free of hazardous and toxic materials before putting them for scrapping and other such harsh conditions were met with stiff resistance by Pakistan and other countries.
		There was consensus amongst developing countries that such harsh conditions will have negative impact on their economies in general and the shipbreaking industry in particular.
		According to industry sources, presently the shipbreaking yards in the Western countries are lying idle and had the condition of environmental protection was imposed it would have benefited them at the cost of poor nations who have to provide jobs to their large skilled and unskilled workforce.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/02/ebr1.htm (625 words)

	Kulongoski says port shipbreaking operation a no go \| KATU - Portland, Oregon \| Business
		He left the door open to a shipbreaking operation on land, however.
		Portland has the state's only dry-docks, but working in dry-docks is vastly more expensive and rarely done in the shipbreaking industry.
		The Port of Newport in January turned down the shipbreakers, prompting the company to explore new sites in Portland and in Washington state.
	www.katu.com /news/business/3611466.html (723 words)

	British balk at shipbreaking deal \| csmonitor.com
		A British shipyard is being paid $17 million to dispose of these two ships plus 11 other US vessels that have been rusting in Virginia's James River for 15 years and are contaminated with PCBs, asbestos, and heavy diesel.
		The transatlantic deal is focusing fresh attention on the multimillion- dollar global shipbreaking trade, which sends hundreds of outdated vessels each year to countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and China, where regulations are more lax.
		Critics say that shipbreaking sites on the Asian subcontinent are "time bombs" because the toxic substances have not been disposed of adequately.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1015/p06s01-woeu.html?worldNav (1008 words)

	Asian shipbreaking yards are death traps: rights groups
		Accidents, explosions and contamination from hazardous materials plague workers in many shipbreaking yards, according to a report issued in Paris by Greenpeace and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH).
		Almost half of the world's ships end up in India -- which has the world's biggest shipbreaking yard, at Alang in the northwestern state of Gujarat -- for dismantling after their sailing lives are over, according to Greenpeace.
		Despite a lack of official statistics, Greenpeace and the FIDH estimate that several thousand people die in accidents in shipbreaking yards each year, without counting deaths due to long-term contamination.
	www.terradaily.com /2005/051213175241.fr515waw.html (470 words)

	Planet Ark : Shipbreaking May Have Killed Thousands – Greenpeace
		NEW DELHI - Environmental group Greenpeace said on Monday thousands of workers involved in the shipbreaking industry are likely to have died over the past two decades due to accidents or exposure to toxic waste on the ships.
		The organisations said as per their estimates, every year hundreds of workers become victims of accidents at shipbreaking yards or fall sick breathing toxic fumes.
		It added if workers were not dying or getting seriously injured in accidents, they suffered a big risk of falling ill or dying from toxic-waste-related diseases often because the ships were being sent for scrap without removing toxic waste.
	www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/33997/story.htm (589 words)

	ShipBreaking
		In Baltimore: Against the backdrop of the harbor, downtown and Fort McHenry, scrappers demolish the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (left), the largest shipbreaking project in Navy history.
		To the bare bones: Workers stripping the helicopter carrier USS Iwo Jima found pipes and boilers shrouded with asbestos, lead paint on the hull and toxic chromates in ballast tanks.
		Iwo Jima served from 1961-1993 and was sold to International Shipbreaking in Brownsville, Tx.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/2170/shipbreaking.html (342 words)

	Shipyard Employment eTool > Shipbreaking > Tools and Related Equipment
		A variety of portable power and hand tools, such as grinders, drills, saws, and wrenches, are used in shipbreaking.
		Note: Confined space entry is one of the leading hazards associated with barge cleaning.
		Review the Shipbreaking: Confined/Enclosed Spaces and Other Dangerous Atmospheres and PPE: General Shipyard Worker chapters for information on how to protect workers from this hazard.
	www.osha.gov /SLTC/etools/shipyard/ship_breaking/tools/index_tl.html (960 words)

	International Shipbreaking Limited
		International Shipbreaking Limited, LLC and its affiliates ("ISL") provide full service recycling operations for obsolete maritime vessels and equipment.
		Located in Brownsville, Texas, ISL was incorporated in 1995 to provide dismantling and recycling services to ship owners who take cradle to grave responsibility for environmental hazards and worker safety.
		Of the four contract winners, only Brownsville, Texas,-based International Shipbreaking was already scrapping ships, three for the Navy and one for the US Maritime Administration.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/brownsville.htm (287 words)

	Shipbreaking And International Law - Shipbreaking And International Law Data - Shipbreaking And International Law Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shipbreaking And International Law - Shipbreaking And International Law Data - Shipbreaking And International Law Facts
		Help Greenpeace keep an eye on 50 ships that are likely to be scrapped in the near future.
		unknown shipbreaking yard shipbreaking yard in South Asia after having left the Port of Montreal without prior notification to government officals as required under international law
	great-resource.net /lawyer/6/shipbreaking-and-international-law.html (1002 words)

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