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noun
The breaking up of a ship for scrap recycling.
Postwar, half of it was given over to shipbreaking and the other half to a flotilla of pre-nuclear submarines.
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These 1,213 ships account for 71percentt of the tonnage being dismantled in the world, according to Shipbreaking Platform.
More than half of these ships were discarded on beaches in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where labour and environmental laws are hardly looked after, accounting for 71percentt of the tonnage being dismantled in the world, according to Shipbreaking Platform.
On 6 December 1919, the vessel was struck from the naval list and sold to a shipbreaking firm based in Berlin.
She was stricken from the naval register on 1 October 1920, and sold to a shipbreaking firm based in Toulon in 1921.
Shipbreaking provides jobs for tens of thousands of people, as well as cheap raw materials for industry.
Harpal Dave and his son Uday, based in Bhavnagar, are stevedores with a sideline in shipbreaking.
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Shipbreaking Platform, an NGO which advocates the labourers rights, has hailed the work as "modern day slavery" and estimates about 20percentt of the workers are under 15.
Shipbreaking Platform, an NGO which advocates for laborers' rights, has called the work "modern day slavery," and estimates about 20percentt of the workers are under 15.
