Worker in a shipbreaking yard, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2010 (Photo by Maro Kouri courtesy NGO Shipbreaking Platform) LONDON, UK, April 11, 2014 (ENS) – The International Maritime Organization and the ...

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 ...

DHAKA, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of dismantling old ships in Bangladesh, officials said, following the ...

The Inter Services Public Relations Directorate, in a statement, has condemned certain media outlets and social media ...

The first ship carrying U.S. wheat to Bangladesh since the two countries reached an agreement where Bangladesh committed to purchasing more American wheat has departed. The ship was boarded the ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – A Malaysian aid ship anchored off Bangladesh on Monday bringing relief goods for some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who've fled Myanmar. Military spokesman ...

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, April 4, 2014 (ENS) – Four shipbreaking workers were killed and three others were critically injured Thursday when a gas cylinder exploded in a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong.

Reporting from CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh — In late November, a 52,000-ton barge eased into this ramshackle port on the Bay of Bengal and came to rest on a wide, muddy beach. After nearly four decades ...

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Mohammed Shahin Alam's sprawling yard on the muddy beaches of Sitakunda, near the southern port city of Chittagong, is buzzing with activity. There is a constant clanking of metals as hundreds of ...