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1. Bangladeshi Chittagong utilized almost 50% of the world ships decommissioned for scrap. Local coast have long turned into a real dump, and the once white sand "evolved" in the dark thanks to mush as derived fuel oil. One word on environmental standards here seems nobody cares. I suggest you see everything with my own eyes.
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2. After the Second World War, shipbuilding was experiencing unprecedented growth, a huge amount of metal ships built around the world and increasingly in developing countries. Soon, however, the question arose on the disposal of spent its ships. More economical and profitable turned parse old ships for scrap in poor developing countries, where tens of thousands of low-paid workers dismantled the old ships is several times cheaper than in Europe.

3. In addition to all the important role played by factors such as stringent health and the environment, expensive insurance. All this has made the ships scrapped in developed European countries unprofitable. Here such activity is limited mainly disposal of military courts.

4. Dispose of old ships in developed countries are now extremely high also because of the high cost: the cost of disposal of toxic substances, such as asbestos, PCBs and lead-free and mercury are often higher than the cost of scrap metal.

5. History of the development center in Chittagong ship recycling dates back to 1960, when after the storm on the sandy shore of Chittagong was thrown Greek ship MD-Alpine. Five years later, after several unsuccessful attempts to remove the vessel from the shoal MD Alpine it was written off. Then the locals and began his analysis for scrap.

6. By the mid-1990s in Chittagong has developed a large-scale center for scrapping ships. It was also due to the fact that Bangladesh at dismantling ships scrap value is higher than in any other country.

7. However, the working conditions in the dismantling of ships were terrible. Here every week because of violations of safety one worker died. Mercilessly used child labor.