Gadani ship-breaking yard

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Scrap yards at Gadani are establishments for vessel scrapping on the beach of the town of Gadani, English Gaddani, Pakistan, about 50 km north- west of Karachi on the Arabian Sea, where ocean-going vessels from around the world are dismantled.

The vessels will be delivered in full flight controls on the beach and set to basic.

The business developed from 1947. In the peak period during the 1980s was achieved with about 30,000 workers, a production of 1 million tons of scrap steel annually. Due to the competition of the ship-breaking yards at Alang, India, and ship-breaking yards in Chittagong, Bangladesh, the rise has been reduced.

The work of ship breaking at Gadani Beach was documented in the film Shipbreakers from the year 2004 and the film Workingman's Death from the year 2005.

Examples

The following ships were broken at Gadani beach from:

  • Potsdam ( 1976)
  • Pobeda (1978 )
  • Stoltera (1980 )
  • J. G. Fichte (1981 )
  • Young World (1992 )
  • Canberra ( 1997)
  • Pacific (2001)
  • Rügen ( 2005)
  • MSC Athina formerly Frankfurt Express ( 2009)
SS Canberra
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