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Industries Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir visited the Arab Ship Breaking and Recycling Ltd in Chattogram's Sitakunda today (6 July). Photo: TBS

Govt aims to restore Bangladesh's top position in global ship recycling: Industries minister

He noted that Bangladesh recycled nearly 45% of the world's end-of-life ships two years ago.

A view of vessels undergoing recycling at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram. Photo: TBS

Interim govt's Basel Convention stance creates uncertainty for ship recycling industry, shipbreakers say

Senior government officials, regulators and industry representatives at an inter-ministerial meeting on Bangladesh's shipbreaking industry on 6 June 2026 discussing improving workers' living standards, strengthening occupational health and safety, ensuring environmental protection, and addressing lease-related issues in the sector. Photo: TBS

Inter-ministerial meet discusses shipbreaking worker safety, lease issues

Workers pull a long rope at a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram, Bangladesh, 17 July, 2013. Photo: Reuters

Chaos looms over ship breakers' polls as election commissioners resign

Photo: Mohammad Minhaz Uddin/TBS

Shipbreakers caught in govt agencies’ wrangle over industry revenues

Workers often sustain severe casualties due to unplanned work practices, and the number is not negligible. All these hazards and casualties are avoidable if proper actions are taken. PHOTO: REUTERS

India eyes Bangladesh’s top spot with perks for recycling dying ships

Workers pull a long rope at a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram, Bangladesh, 17 July, 2013. Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh to halt NOCs for non-compliant Ship recycling yards, launches carbon dashboard to enforce compliance

An old-fashioned telescope, also from an old ship, is displayed at a store at Chattogram’s Madam Bibir Hat area. PHOTO: TBS

NO SCRAP LEFT BEHIND: How Bhatiari’s ship graveyard still furnishes homes across Bangladesh

Several thousand traders and workers associated with the shipbreaking industry held a human chain on 27 February along Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at the Bhatiary area in Chattogram. Photo: TBS

Shipbreaking industry traders, workers rally in Ctg, demand protection against 'conspiracies'

Peter D Haas visits PHP Ship Breaking and Recycling Yard on 23 April 2024. Photo: TBS

US Ambassador Peter D Haas applauds positive changes in Bangladesh ship breaking industry

Photo: TBS

Ship-breaking workers demand payment of salary, bonus by 20th Ramadan

Ship-breaking workers suffer lifelong illness due to asbestos exposure 

Ship-breaking workers suffer lifelong illness due to asbestos exposure 

Photo: Reuters

How ship-breaking helped shape the steel industry