Sentence examples for the shipbreaking from inspiring English sources
noun
The breaking up of a ship for scrap recycling.
Another who has worked in the shipbreaking yard for 32 of his 48 years can barely afford to feed his family.
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 facemask on, the business the shipbreaking generates is everywhere.
As you drive towards the yards in a three-wheeled tuktuk with an air-pollution mask on, the business the shipbreaking generates is everywhere.
The ships often contain asbestos, PCBs, mercury, lead, waste fuel oil, and other toxic substances that contaminate the areas around the shipbreaking yards.
Delphine Reuter of the Shipbreaking Platform, an NGO in Brussels, describes ship recycling as "close to slavery".
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The frontal "Shipbreaking # 38, Chittagong, Bangladesh" (2001), for instance, is an expressionist abstraction in dark brown and reddish orange.
The Deadly Shipbreaking Yards of Chittagong.
Swiftsure was sold for scrap on 18 June 1920 to the Stanlee Shipbreaking Company.
She was sold to the Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Co. for scrap on 1 December 1921 and towed to Dover for demolition in March 1922.
