The ship breaking industry was mainly concentrated in industrialist countries until the 1960s and 1970s, but they began to move to take advantage of the cheap labour in countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Ship breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh has unusually high number of work related fatalities and injuries. Due to extreme poverty and political situations in Chittagong hill tracts many Jummas also working in ship breaking yard and carrying out such dangerous jobs. The October 10 downgrading of the status of the ship breaking industry from red to orange can be seen as giving in to this demand. On November 14, 2021, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association served a legal notice on the authorities concerned seeking the cancellation of the status change.

Source: bd News24 November 19, 2021 20:13 UTC