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Gadani Ship Breaking. where giants die and resources Arise.
- 1. Gadani Ship Breaking Yard Where Giants Come to Rest and Resources Rise Again Presented by: Fahad Farooq
- 3. Introduction: • The life of a ship is about 30 to 35 years. • Ships are dismantled, then recycled into further use. • Shipbreaking can be a viable for national economy. • World’s 70% of ships are dismantled on the South Asian shores. • In 1980s, Gadani was the largest shipbreaking yard in the world. • Employed 30,000 workers in 1980s. • Now 3rd largest and employees decreased from 30,000 to 6000.
- 5. History: • Gadani is a small town in Hub tehsil of Baluchistan's Lasbela district. • Located about 46 kilometers to the north-west of Karachi. • The yard consists of 132 shipbreaking plots located across a 10km long beachfront at Gadani. • Annual capacity of breaking up to 125 ships of all sizes. • The sand at the beaches here is neither muddy nor loose.
- 8. Condition of Pakistan’s Shipbreaking Industry in 1990s.
- 9. SHIP BREAKING IN PAKISTAN: • Industry provides raw material to the domestic Steel Industry. • bringing scrap ships and cutting and converting it into Raw Material. • Rerolling material mainly for Rerolling Industry and small Steel Cottage Industries. • Meltable steel/ iron scrap goes to Remelting Industry as well. • 20,000 direct skilled and unskilled workers at Gadani. • 200,000 are employed into downstream industries, contractors, transporters, petty traders and cottage industry etc.
- 11. Pakistan’s Shipbreaking and Recycling Industry (SBRI) Contribution
- 13. Problems: • High Import Duty. • Multiple Layers of Taxation. • Import of Low Graded Re-rollable Scrap. • Debate over Safe Shipbreaking. • Workers are on Daily Wages. • Limited Environmental Protection.
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