The Gujarati town accounts for nearly 98 percent of India’s total and about a third of the global ship recycling volume.

Located along the coast of the Arabian Sea in the state of Gujarat Alang is known as the world's largest naval cemetery. For ...

Once responsible for nearly 98 percent of India’s ship recycling and about one-third of the global total, Alang has seen ship ...

ALANG, India—The SS Norway, once one of America's premier cruise ships, stands on death's edge off the coast of rural India, a battleground in the international struggle over the controversial ...

Danish shipping firm Maersk has announced it will send two decommissioned vessels to a facility in Alang, India, that it says can comply with safety and environmental responsibility best practices.

Report by Indian research institute reveals poor enforcement of occupational health and safety provisions The working and living conditions at the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, remain alarmingly ...

Click here to see a slideshow of Peter Knego's visit to Alang, India. Streaked in rust, its twin funnels a sun-parched shade of green, the Independence drifted through melting fog across the San ...

The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...

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 ...

On its final voyage, the 25-year-old, 370-foot Russian trawler Komandarm Shcherbakov collected 3,000 tons of blue whiting fish from Denmark's Faroe Islands and ferried the catch to Nigeria. Three ...

ALANG, India — The last voyage of the Nikolai Pogodin, a Russian freighter plagued by debt and barnacles, ended in the hopeless hour before dawn on the beach at Plot No. 20. The lights of the Pogodin ...

ALANG, India (Reuters) - A global economic slowdown has hit industries ranging from automakers to investment banks, but in one small town on India's western coast, business is at record levels and ...