What to do with old ships

• What to do with old ships

Where the ships leave, end-of-age? Modern ships are able to walk for decades on the seas and oceans, before the repair becomes uneconomical. When their life is about to end, about 90% of the huge ships are off the coast of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, where cheap labor lives.

Older ships are building along the waterfront, and then dismantled them apart hammers and blow lamps as long as anything can be sold or recycled.

Portrait of Indian laborers, which parses the old ships to pieces. Mumbai, India, December 27, 2012.

Gaddani, Pakistan July 10, 2012. There are works on the removal of the ship plating. In the left upper part of the vessel seen people who help assess the scale.

This place is located 40 kilometers away from Karachi and is one of the largest sites on the analysis of old ships. About 10 000 employees send ships here in the last journey. On average, about three months required 50 workers to disassemble the old ship of medium size with a displacement of 40,000 tons apart. It is a hard and dangerous work. Workers get about $ 300 a month, half of which is spent on food and housing rent, and they are working 6 days a week.

All the labor is manual. Here workers using blowtorches cut from a piece of metal craft. Pakistan November 25, 2011.

This is a satellite view of the cemetery of ships in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Going to the rescue. Gaddani, Pakistan, November 24, 2011

Cutting the hull. Gaddani, Pakistan, July 11, 2012.

But almost a parsed ship. ship breaking in Chittagong greatly pollute the coastal area of 20 km in length.

are reviewing ship people of different ages, Mumbai December 21, 2006.

The workers pull the rope to separate the part of the ship, November 25, 2011

Trolley, used to drain parts of the ship to the shore, Gaddani, Pakistan, November 25, 2011

Inside the hull were barrels of oil Gaddani, Pakistan, July 11, 2012.

Rabotyaga from Jakarta, Indonesia. It receives about $ 5 a day.

Pakistan, July 10, 2012.

The shore of the dead ships to Alang, which is 50 kms from Bhavnagar, India. Satellite View

Portrait on a background of an old ship in Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 19, 2009.

This is, incidentally, the first Indian aircraft carrier "Vikrant", Mumbai, India, 22 November 2014. "Vikrant" was originally built in the Royal British Navy named HMS "Hercules" (R49). The ship was built in the shipyards of the English company "Vickers-Armstrong" during the Second World War in 1943.

break. Chittagong, Bangladesh, July 16, 2013.

tall ships. Workers make homemade cable car to climb up the ship, November 24, 2011.

Gaddani, Pakistan, July 9, 2012.

Analysis of the vessel in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 July 2008.

Shower after work shift, Gaddani, Pakistan, July 10, 2012.

The workers at the old ship in Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 19, 2009.

Ship Dismantling in Gaddani, Pakistan, July 10, 2012.

The workers climb on the ship along the chain, Gaddani, Pakistan, November 24, 2011

The workers roll out the barrel oil from ship to shore, Chittagong, Bangladesh, July 24, 2008.

A few months - and the ship remains a skeleton. Chittagong, Bangladesh, April 19, 2009.

The woman collects rusty pieces of metal on the beach in the rain. 100 kg collected rust it will earn about $ 2. It was in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 16, 2010.