Bhavnagar: Following the finding of a high amount of hazardous industrial waste that was being dumped in a creek near Sisodiya Yard in Alang, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) held an emergency meeting with Alang Ship Breakers

Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured.

Gandhinagar: Mitsubishi Corporation, Nippon Steel and Japanese Marine Science Inc have come forward to invest in Alang-Sosiya shipbreaking yard for a futuristic hazard-free eco-friendly ship recycling facility.

The global recession may have turned many millionaires into paupers, but for the ship-breakers at Alang, a coastal stretch near Bhavnagar in Gujarat, it's been like manna from heaven.

The Department of Environment (DoE) here yesterday sued three more ship-breaking yards for polluting environment and not responding to its notices of clearance.

With this, seven ship-breaking yards have been sued within two weeks.

The DoE investigator Saiful Ashrab filed the cases with Sitakunda Police Station and the Environment Court.

The yards are Rahman Ship Yard and Mahin Enterprise

A Bangladeshi barge carrying around 60 tonnes of fly ash sank in the Hooghly, near Budge Budge, on Thursday apparently after the engine developed a snag during high tide.

The Anmona-2, which was returning to Bangladesh with fly ash from the CESC plant in Budge Budge, has been tied away from the navigational channel, about 60 feet from the bank.

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Ahmedabad: Marine conservation initiatives along the India coastline are set to receive a major boost with the induction into the Indian Coast Guard, a pollution control vessel, which is one of its kind in Asia.

THE Indian Coast Guard averted a major oil disaster after it swiftly swung into action following a heavy fuel leak from a merchant vessel anchored off the Orissa coast on Wednesday.

MV Malavika, owned by the Essar Shipping Private limited, was anchored off Gopalpur on Monday.

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The Gopalpur Port authorities on Wednes- day engaged 200 local peo- ple to clean the oil-silts from the local beach that was inundated by a thick layer of petroleum fuel leaking out of a cargo ship docked in the port.