Scrapping yards near Gadani
Coordinates: 25 ° 3 ′ 49 ″ N , 66 ° 42 ′ 41 ″ E
The scrapping yards near Gadani are companies for ship scrapping on the beach near the village of Gadani in Pakistan about 50 km northwest of Karachi on the Arabian Sea , in which ocean-going vessels from all over the world are scrapped. There are a total of 132 demolition points over a length of around 10 km, at which supertankers can also be dismantled. In the 2009/10 operating year, the record number of 107 ships was scrapped.
history
The business grew from small beginnings to industrial size in 1947, after Pakistan had become independent , but suffered for a long time from the lack of infrastructure such as roads, electricity and water supply, housing for the workers, etc. During the peak period during the In the 1980s, more than 30,000 workers produced 1 million tons of scrap steel every year. Due to the growing competition between the now larger scrapping yards near Alang ( India ) and the scrapping yards near Chittagong ( Bangladesh ), the volume has fallen considerably. Today only about 6000 workers work in Gadani.
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At high tide, the ships are steered towards the beach with their own power at full speed and put on the ground and then cannibalized on the beach and dismantled from the bow. The hull , which is gradually getting shorter and lighter, is pulled from time to time onto the beach by means of steel cable winches until it is completely wrecked. The sometimes very dangerous work is largely done by hand by thousands of cheap-wage workers. Serious accidents happen again and again. In early November 2016, while the tanker Aces, which was formerly operated by PetroChina , was dismantled, an explosion and fire occurred inside the hull, killing at least 21 workers and injuring around 60. A similar accident happened in January 2017, with an explosion on the former liquefied gas tanker Chaumadra killing five people and injuring at least one worker. Another incident occurred on the Aces in November 2017 . As a result, the scrapping of tankers in Gadani was temporarily banned.
Mountains of material pile up on the beach, sorted according to possible reuse; Scrap steel, electrical cables, teak planks, toilets, lamps, ship furniture, portholes, nautical instruments, anchors, electric motors, etc.
The work of Gadani's scrappers was documented in the 2004 film Shipbreakers and the 2005 film Workingman's Death .
literature
- Thomas Graue: The sandy slaughterhouse for ships . In: Shipping International . Vol. 40, No. 9 , September 1989, pp. 352/353 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Ship Breaking and Recycling Industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan (PDF) )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Record 107 ships dismantled at Gaddani , Dawn , June 29, 2010 )
- ^ Ship-breaking industry: Uncertain future. ( online ( memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ http://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/major-explosion-pakistans-gadani-shipbreaking-yard-kills-21-workers/
- ↑ http://gcaptain.com/another-deadly-blast-gadani-shipbreaking-yard/
- ↑ The scrap tanker "Aces" burns for the second time. November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
- ↑ https://fairplay.ihs.com/markets/article/4300776/tanker-recycling-sales-resume-in-pakistan-but-scrapyards-still-cautious
- ↑ https://splash247.com/pakistan-resume-tanker-scrapping/