List of ship breaking yards

This is a list of notable ship breaking yards:

Ship breaking yard Country City Province Founded Plots L (km) ref
Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard Bangladesh Chittagong Chittagong 1960 18 [1][2][3]
Alang Ship Breaking Yard India Alang Gujarat 1983 153 [4][5][6][1][7][8][9]
Gadani Ship Breaking Yard Pakistan Gadani Balochistan 1947 132 10 [1][10]
Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard Turkey Aliağa Izmir [1][11][12]
Able UK at Graythorpe Dock United Kingdom Hartlepool Tees Valley 1996 [13]
Galloo, Ghent, formerly Van Heyghen Recycling Belgium
SteelCoast, Brownsville, Texas United States
International Shipbreaking, Brownsville, Texas United States
Mare Island Dry Docks, Vallejo, California United States
Changjiang Ship Breaking Yard China Jiangyin
El-Tareq Ship- breaking Yard, Egypt, Suez Egypt Suez Elattaka 2005 1.4

See also

References

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