Record ship breaking in Bhavnagar

Bhavnagar district’s Alang Sosia ship-breaking yard, the month of February has been the most fruitful
with highest number of ships arriving for demolition.

Average annual arrival of ships at Alang remains at around 300. The number of ships arrived in 1998/99 were
in the region of 361.

This record has been broken this year with the 362nd ship arriving In the first 25 days of February 2012, the ship
breaking yard has seen the arrival of 45 ships compared with the following months.

April 2011 – 20
May 2011 – 40
June 2011 – 34
July 2011 - 31
August 2011 – 33
September 2011 – 31
October 2011 – 28
November 2011 -37
December 2011 -36
January 2012 – 30
February 2012 – 45 ships arrived.