Sentence examples for shipbreaking business from inspiring English sources

Although India has wrestled the shipbreaking business from yards in Europe and North America by effectively eliminating high-priced environmental safeguards, Bangladesh is now capturing more of India's business by lowering environmental standards even more dramatically.

As you drive towards the yards in a three-wheeled tuktuk with an air-pollution mask on, the business the shipbreaking generates is everywhere.

As you drive towards the yards in a three-wheeled tuktuk with an air pollution facemask on, the business the shipbreaking generates is everywhere.

Shipbreaking is a labor-intensive business.

Rather like shipbuilding half a century ago, he says, shipbreaking is a boom-and-bust business.

Shipbreaking provides jobs for tens of thousands of people, as well as cheap raw materials for industry.

Postwar, half of it was given over to shipbreaking and the other half to a flotilla of pre-nuclear submarines.

The frontal "Shipbreaking # 38, Chittagong, Bangladesh" (2001), for instance, is an expressionist abstraction in dark brown and reddish orange.

Delphine Reuter of the Shipbreaking Platform, an NGO in Brussels, describes ship recycling as "close to slavery".

Another who has worked in the shipbreaking yard for 32 of his 48 years can barely afford to feed his family.

Turned away by Spain and Turkey, the ship was slated to be broken up in India, which has a cheap, slapdash and thriving shipbreaking industry.