Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard (Bengali: সীতাকুণ্ড জাহাজ ভাঙ্গা এলাকা, romanized: Sītākuṇḍa Jāhāja Bhāṅgā Ēlākā) is located in Faujdarhat, Sitakunda Upazila, Bangladesh along the 18 kilometres (11 mi) Sitakunda coastal strip, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Chittagong.
[3] It employs over 200,000 Bangladeshis, making it one of the largest ship breaking yard and accounts for around one-half of all the steel in Bangladesh.
A local company, Karnafully Metal Works Ltd bought it as scrap in 1974 and introduced commercial ship breaking in the country.
[2] At one stage the industry was a tourist attraction, but outsiders are no longer welcome due to its poor safety record;[7] a local watchdog group claims that one worker dies a week and one is injured a day on average.
[10] A scene of the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron was shot at the ship breaking yards of Chittagong.