Despite new international safety standards, the beaches of South Asia remain the destination for environmentally destructive and dangerous shipbreaking.

By Johnny Sturgeon

Every day along the coast of Sitakunda, Bangladesh, the earth recoils without warning. The ground shudders as steel sections, hundreds of feet in length, fall away from the carcasses of former long-distance liners and pummel the mudflats of the world’s largest ship graveyard. Picked apart by local hands, this will become the final act for many of the 68,000 vessels that move over 90 percent of global trade.

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