In fact, 70-80% of the world’s de-commissioned ships are sent into India, Bangladesh and Pakistan to be stripped for parts. There are other ship graveyards in the world though, and not all of them have the same environmental and health and safety standards as Aliaga. “Massive sections of the hull are moved over head with massive cranes capable of lifting objects of 2000 tons in one go,” The Sun reports. This requires plenty of saws and blowtorches.
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Image Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesĪdding to the task is that all floors, walls, handrails and windows need to be taken out. Emre Aras, a manager at the Aliaga yard, told The Sun cruise ships are the most difficult type of ship to dismantle “ because there are hundreds of rooms on board.” Izmir, Turkey, October the 2nd, 2020. The Sun reports that the expensive navigation equipment is the first to go, along with all the furniture including beds, floors and even pianos. Depending on the size of each ship, each vessel typically needs a couple of thousand workers to recycle, and the process for each ship can take up to a year. Steel and metal scraps are then smelted down for construction material or sold to car manufacturers. “The yards do not resort to the gravity method, that is, dropping blocks into the water or onto the beach.” NGO Shipbreaking Platform The way this works, according to the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, is that “the bow of the vessel is grounded on the shore while the stern is still afloat.” Then: “the blocks are… lifted by cranes onto a drained and impermeable working area.” So: what goes on in a cruise ship graveyard? How do they recycle these giant floating beasts? In the Aliaga shipyard, they use a landing method. In 2020 this processing port made waves around the world when images arose of the place being used as a graveyard for cruise ships. In Izmir, Turkey, in a town called Aliaga, there is a ship processing centre where old cargo ships and container ships get stripped for parts, broken down and recycled. From the Australian Outback to the Californian desert, we’ve all heard about aircraft ‘boneyards.’ But where do cruise ships go to die?
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