On the Bangladeshi coast of the Bay of Bengal, past-their-prime oil tankers and cargo vessels are beached on the muddy shore like industrial, open-air graveyards. There, these massive ships are taken ...

A fresh row over scrap steel has put Bangladesh’s ship-breaking industry into peril. The ship-breakers have raised the price of scrap steel by Tk 1000 (US $15.79) per metric ton and decided to sell ...

Dying piece by piece, the beached supertanker looms over the shore, a skeletal Colossus almost too big to be imagined, and a cash cow heralding a rebirth for the country’s controversial ship-breaking ...

There are many men there, thousands of them. The men are crawling all over the ships. The ships have been pulled out of the water using big winches that are sunk into the sand on the beach. They pull ...

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh/SINGAPORE, May 19 (Reuters) - Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The beaches of Chittagong are a massive graveyard for decommissioned ships and tankers.

We were recently watching a couple of documentaries on the ship breaking industry and we thought it would be interesting to see what they look like from above in Google Earth. So we looked around the ...

GADDANI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Mehdi Hassan was clinging to a greasy rope, toiling high inside the hull of an oil tanker, when he became another victim of lax safety standards at Pakistan's Gaddani ...

CHITTAGONG: Abul Hossen is preparing for the arrival of dozens of ships that promise to carry his family and hundreds, if not thousands, of other Bangladeshis out of a life of poverty. Instead of ...