ship-breaking

A restrained Hutton explained onstage that — having spent 10 years as a merchant marine in his youth — he initially wanted to make a film about ship-breaking, the messy and dangerous process by which rusting hulks are broken down into their component elements in cash-starved countries like Bangladesh.

Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January 2008

The film goes on to take in vast Canadian marble mines and ship-breaking beaches in Bangladesh, but the main focus is China, including the Five Gorges Dam project where people are paid to demolish their own soon-to-be-inundated houses to avoid them snagging passing ships.

SPOILER: we're all going to die amuchmoreexotic 2008

After three hours of shooting in one of these ship-breaking yards, he was kicked out, but the usable footage prompted him to construct a trilogy of sorts: the building, voyage and dismantling of a ship. (the reeler – scroll down)

Peter Hutton – At Sea 2008

A restrained Hutton explained onstage that — having spent 10 years as a merchant marine in his youth — he initially wanted to make a film about ship-breaking, the messy and dangerous process by which rusting hulks are broken down into their component elements in cash-starved countries like Bangladesh.

Peter Hutton – At Sea 2008

After three hours of shooting in one of these ship-breaking yards, he was kicked out, but the usable footage prompted him to construct a trilogy of sorts: the building, voyage and dismantling of a ship. (the reeler – scroll down)

Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January 2008

Andrew Biraj/Reuters TAKING A BREAK: Men rested after working at a ship-breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday.

Today's Photos: Aug. 19 2009

Now comes word that, after five years of negotiations, delegates from 64 countries have reached a general consensus on the shape of an agreement to regulate ship-breaking.

Progress in the Ship-Breaking Industry? « Gender Across Borders 2009

Rizwana Hasan was recognized for her work with the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association combating abuses of laborers and the environment by the ship-breaking industry in which ships used and owned by citizens of wealthy nations are dismantled for scrap by impoverished workers who have little protection from exploitation or the safety and health threats posed by these often toxic hulks.

The 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize « Gender Across Borders 2009

Cochrane shouted the despairing cry to the cold, ship-breaking wind.

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Park's rigor in limiting the ship-breaking world to a worker's-eye-view leaves many nagging questions unanswered: What's the cost of dismantling a ship?

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