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Coast ship-breaking in Chittagong
This is a place on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, the state-owned Bangladesh, it can rightly be considered the world's largest temporary graveyard for ships. Although all the figures are quite arbitrary.
According to experts, along the coast of the second largest country in Chittagong, disassembled into parts of at least one hundred large ships in a calendar year. Although this is only the official figures. There is in fact also an unofficial "black market". In general, if you look at the map Google, using a mode of "Earth", it turns out that the ships in the line stretched for dozens of kilometers. Ships disassembled to the last screw. This is a rather dangerous work, because often there are fire residual fuel. In addition, these places are considered an environmental hazard, since part of the harmful substances, as a result, gets into the world's oceans. Half of the steel manufactured in Bangladesh, we have just such dying ships.
According to experts, along the coast of the second largest country in Chittagong, disassembled into parts of at least one hundred large ships in a calendar year. Although this is only the official figures. There is in fact also an unofficial "black market". In general, if you look at the map Google, using a mode of "Earth", it turns out that the ships in the line stretched for dozens of kilometers. Ships disassembled to the last screw. This is a rather dangerous work, because often there are fire residual fuel. In addition, these places are considered an environmental hazard, since part of the harmful substances, as a result, gets into the world's oceans. Half of the steel manufactured in Bangladesh, we have just such dying ships.
