Travel report India

A passage to Indian shipbreakingyards

'We can see how workers cut steel plates from the ship with a large torch cutter. Old shears - there's one at every yard - hoist the steel pieces onto the wharf. Dozens of men twist their bodies in impossible angles to torch cut the steel into little pieces. It's hard physical, dangerous and unhealthy labour.' Greenpeace-campaigners Marietta Harjono and Frank Petersen visited Indian shipbreakingyards in Alang, Pipavav and Bombay last december. Read their travel report.

Part 1: Alang, the world's largest scapping site

Part 2: Toxic fumes and black sand

Part 3: A shipbreaker in Bombay

Part 4: Pipavav, a modern scrap yard waiting for orders