ALANG, India — For the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, even sailing quietly into the sunset is proving difficult. Now called the Oriental Nicety, it’s floating off India in a kind of ...

The Exxon Valdez is one of thousands of ships dismantled at the Alang ship-breaking yard in western Indian state of Gujarat, India. AP Photo Gujarat, India, is home to one of the largest ship-breaking ...

COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Maersk Line said on Friday it had chosen four shipbreaking yards along India's Alang beaches to handle an increase in vessels that need to be scrapped, to the dismay of ...

Bhavnagar, Dec 9 (PTI) One person died, while three others managed to escape unharmed when fire broke out at one of the scrap warehouses at the Alang ship breaking yard here today, police said. A ...

Yes, the ship that in 1989 drenched the beaches of Alaska in crude oil is still around, having fled the scene of its crime to drift through Europe under an assumed name, like so many disgraced ...

The recent controversy over the demolition of the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau has highlighted the terrible conditions facing workers at the giant Alang-Sosiya Ship-Breaking Yard ...

ALANG, India — For the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, even sailing quietly into the sunset is proving difficult. Now called the Oriental Nicety, it’s floating off India in a kind of ...

ALANG, India/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In the world's biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India's Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of ...

The global supply chain, which was affected by the coronavirus pandemic, could take time to regularize following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the resulting rise in ocean freight rates has ...

When the big ships come to Asia to die, they often take lives with them. Upendra Shethi knows. He was one of an army of laborers hired by an Indian ship-breaking yard to strip the 50-year-old China ...

Chinese demand for steel has pushed up the prices of ships going to the scrapyard by over 40 per cent worldwide. In the past two weeks, old vessels of all types fetched a whopping $315 per light ...