Ship Breaking In Bangladesh

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Ship breaking in Bangladesh

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Ship breaking in Bangladesh

Ship breaking activities entails the act of facilitating the dismantling of the seemingly

obsolete vessel’s structure for disposal and scrapping. The activity is often conducted at a

dismantling yard whereby many activities tend to occur. The important activities that often occur

while dismantling the vessels include removal of both the equipment and gear that are on the

ships and breaking down and recycling the various components of the ship. The developing

world tends to serve as the host to the vast majority of the ship breaking efforts.

Some of the important stakeholders to the ship breaking activities include the laborers

that are mostly the citizens of Bangladesh. The workers mainly comprise of the individuals of

varied age groups with the majority being below 22 years. The preference for performing the

ship breaking activities in Bangladesh arise from the fact that the citizens tend to offer a cheaper

source of labor with the government’s lack of enforcement of both the industrial policies and

work safety providing a perfect opportunity for exploitation by the ship breaking business

owners. The ship breaking organizations as well serve as stakeholders since they attract the

shipping companies towards ensuring the effective dismantling of their ships at the several yards.

The ship breaking firms mostly owned by the families exploits some of the evident poor states of

the people to expose them to harsh conditions through paying low wages while providing poor

working conditions (Sujauddin et al., 2017). The government of Bangladesh as well serves as a

stakeholder through its introduction of national policies and legislation towards improving both

the environmental and occupational health and safety standards in the shipping yards. However,

the lack of proper governance and lack of enforcement of the policies and laws has created a

loophole that has played a crucial role in promoting corruption in the industry hence preventing

implementation of rules for protecting the interests of the people.

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Outsourcing entails contracting out of part of the existing internal activities to other

people or firms. Through outsourcing, the various shipping companies are capable of ensuring

reduction of their labor costs by seeking services from other developing nations such as

Bangladesh. Outsourcing sees the company seeking the services of poor individuals that are less

illiterate who solely depend on the wages from their labor for survival. Consequently, the ship

breaking companies are capable of exploiting the weaknesses posed by the citizens towards

maximizing their income through ignoring the various interests of the people such as availing

protective equipment and the right tools for performing the various tasks that entail dismantling

the ships (YPSA, 2012). Outsourcing, therefore, plays a significant role in allowing for the

different large shipping firms to ensure that they keep the labor costs low through hiring in the

emerging markets characterized by lower living standards.

The stakeholders that need to be responsible for the shipwrecking yards and the

employees are the government. The government bears the responsibility for ensuring the

protection of its citizens from potential danger such as explosions at the yards and other

accidents that arise due to the absence of the adequate protective gears (Nøst, et al., 2015). The

government is thus capable of ensuring management of the shipwrecking yards through setting

policies on assigning licenses that guide operations and ensuring observance of the labor laws by

the various operatives.

Improvement of the ship disposal is achievable through subjecting the different ships to

tests to ascertain the level of danger that they pose to the workers and ensuring that the staff is

equipped with the appropriate protective gears. Furthermore, ensuring that the staff has the

adequate knowledge and skills for disposing of the ships is crucial for preventing the occurrence

of accidents at the yards. Additionally, establishing adequate policies to guide the processes that

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entail dismantling of the vessels is essential for preventing the adverse effects evident in the

industry attributable to accidents.

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References

Nøst, T. H., Halse, A. K., Randall, S., Borgen, A. R., Schlabach, M., Paul, A., ... & Breivik, K.

(2015). High Concentrations of organic contaminants in air from ship breaking activities

in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Environmental science & technology, 49(19), 11372-11380.

Sujauddin, M., Koide, R., Komatsu, T., Hossain, M. M., Tokoro, C., & Murakami, S. (2017).

Ship Breaking and the Steel Industry in Bangladesh: A Material Flow

Perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 21(1), 191-203.

Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) , (2012). SHIP BREAKING IN BANGLADESH.

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