Alang Ship Breaking Yard

[11][12] The Alang facility consists of 183 ship breaking yards along 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) of coast that total 4.5 million Light Displacement Tonnage (LDT) of capacity.

[13] Large super-tankers, car ferries, container ships, and a dwindling number of ocean liners are beached on the mud flats during high tide.

[17][18] The project aimed to make Alang the largest International Maritime Organization-compliant ship recycling yard in the world.

On 31 December 2005, the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau left Toulon to be dismantled in Alang, despite protests about improper disposal and mismanagement of toxic waste at the facility.

[22] Shortly after, Able UK, based at the Graythorp yard near Hartlepool, received a disassembly contract to use accepted practices in scrapping the ship.

[3] In August 2012, Oriental Nicety, famous for an oil spill in Prince William sound when she was known as Exxon Valdez, was scrapped at Alang.

This hospital was set up by the Gujarat Maritime Board, is operated by the Indian Red Cross Society, and is able to provide immediate medical services.