Discard Culture

A Shipbreaking Story

Author: Jessica Fauvelle


Ship Breaking is an industry that is dedicated to breaking down ships that have reached the end of their working lives. Companies buy these ships and send them to yards to be broken down by contract labourers, this creates many jobs for unskilled workers. Once the ship is broken down its parts are recycled, from the steel, the furniture inside and even generators that could power whole villages! 

Reason to break a ship depends on: 
• market supply of new ships
• demand for shipping in the global supply chain 
• cost of maintaining the ships
• market for second-hand ships

At first glance this seems like a great industry, creating jobs and making use of ships that are no longer of use, but there is much more to the story.  


As you can see from this web, there are some benefits to shipbreaking. However there are a lot more downfalls to the industry as it is currently running. To see some of these skip right to The Who

Contents of this path:

  1. Finding Information
  2. The Where
  3. The Who
  4. What's Being Done
  5. Conclusion

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