The carnage of workers at shipbreaking yards in South Asia is continuing with at least 15 workers being killed and many others injured. In the latest incidents, two workers died at Alang ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar, India when steel plates fell on them, while another four workers were killed when a gas cylinder exploded in a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. These deaths are the consequences of an industry where companies have pushed the costs of dismantling the ships onto the impoverished workers of South Asia. The profits of these shipping companies are dripping with the blood of countless injured and dead workers.
The carnage of workers at shipbreaking yards in South Asia is continuing with at least 15 workers being killed and many others injured. In the latest incidents, two workers died at Alang ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar, India when steel plates fell on them, while another four workers were killed when a gas cylinder exploded in a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. These deaths are the consequences of an industry where companies have pushed the costs of dismantling the ships onto the impoverished workers of South Asia. The profits of these shipping companies are dripping with the blood of countless injured and dead workers.
