Ship Breaking Yards: Political, Legal and Environmental Factors and Being Affected
Ship breaking yards: political, legal and environmental factors and being affected
Report Contributed by
Saiful Islam, Lecturer (Economics), Cheora Govt. College, Comilla, Bangladesh
Abstract
Since the 60s of last millennium Bangladesh is a pioneer of ship scrapping industry of the world. It blessed Bangladesh with employment, steel and foreign remittance saving. But in return it costs us our life and environment. So concern is rising up. How much time yards will have the privilege of ignoring risk of workers rules regarding environment? Death tolls tells everyday it is a time to make a decision on the rules compliance and facilities that should be undertaken for the sake of present and future generation.
Ship breaking yards: political, legal and environmental factors and being affected.
Ship breaking yards: political, legal and environmental factors and being affected
Introduction:
Bangladesh with its 160m people with no iron ore of her own makes an option for opening the door of ship breaking industry from which she largely accumulate nearly 60% of her total steel consumption. In Shitakunda near the port city Chittagong it occupied more than 20 mile in stretch for grounding the ship breaking yards. Today ship breaking industry is a necessity for Bangladesh’s development from a near agrarian society to a modern industrial developing nation. Salvaged ships offers multidimensional opportunity with heavy saving of foreign currency helping import substitute of steel, employment opportunity, ship extracts (lucrative items) and many more.
Ship breaking yards are in the same line place a debate. Questioning that benefits are observed from the heavy toll of environment, causing damages in coastal forest line exposing nearby districts to cyclone, dumping poisons (metals and non metals) in the sea, causalities, injuries and health risk of human ware. Poor work environment, employing child labor, and making bar in forming labor union, ill payment
Report Contributed by
Saiful Islam, Lecturer (Economics), Cheora Govt. College, Comilla, Bangladesh
Abstract
Since the 60s of last millennium Bangladesh is a pioneer of ship scrapping industry of the world. It blessed Bangladesh with employment, steel and foreign remittance saving. But in return it costs us our life and environment. So concern is rising up. How much time yards will have the privilege of ignoring risk of workers rules regarding environment? Death tolls tells everyday it is a time to make a decision on the rules compliance and facilities that should be undertaken for the sake of present and future generation.
Ship breaking yards: political, legal and environmental factors and being affected.
Ship breaking yards: political, legal and environmental factors and being affected
Introduction:
Bangladesh with its 160m people with no iron ore of her own makes an option for opening the door of ship breaking industry from which she largely accumulate nearly 60% of her total steel consumption. In Shitakunda near the port city Chittagong it occupied more than 20 mile in stretch for grounding the ship breaking yards. Today ship breaking industry is a necessity for Bangladesh’s development from a near agrarian society to a modern industrial developing nation. Salvaged ships offers multidimensional opportunity with heavy saving of foreign currency helping import substitute of steel, employment opportunity, ship extracts (lucrative items) and many more.
Ship breaking yards are in the same line place a debate. Questioning that benefits are observed from the heavy toll of environment, causing damages in coastal forest line exposing nearby districts to cyclone, dumping poisons (metals and non metals) in the sea, causalities, injuries and health risk of human ware. Poor work environment, employing child labor, and making bar in forming labor union, ill payment