Even with the pandemic raging over a year, the ship recycling industry isn’t getting any rest. On the contrary, there’s an increase in the number of ships heading for scrap yards like Alang in Gujarat, India.
Alang had an unprecedented time teaching ship last year, having scrapped a staggering 187 vessels. However, the ship recycling yard doesn’t have that much infrastructure to tackle such an exodus of ships sent for recycling. Of the 120 working plots of the shipyard, only 90 have green...