Wow!!! What a perspective!

This is Chittagong - Bangladesh working condition .. please remember ..... Not Gadani .....

Peter Hartung .... Thanks for the reference ...it could be more interesting if it is available in English version ..
You can see the Beaching of ships .. far away from shore .. people has to use rope to reach the vessel in muddy surface ... see at 13:10 min

Well complete Video link is down under

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOCp41uY9eE

regards,

Guys ... First of all the People seen in the Pictures are not the Workers .... they are spectators residing near village, the actual workers have PPE but they use the equipment on their own comfort level, Breakers have given them necessary measurement, now its up to them to use it or not,

Second KENHARRIS1, you wanted to create hype by calling it Scandal, let me tell you no Women is allowed to Work in Gadani Yard only hard working and Skilled Labor doing the Job, now even in Green yard of other Asian countries .... People have much more Misery than here in Gadani ... Giving them Equipment is not all they want ... after work the Living standard is also the main Issue, here in Gadani the quarters and the Area where it build are Clean while in India and Bangladesh the living standard are Living Hell, you may refer to so many Documentaries available on Net.

Third I'm absolutely agree with Capt. TED, the wages and Salary Gadani worker got is far more & Better than any other working area, that's why People don't Leave this area and rather prefer to work here, and after a year when they were leaving for their Homes they manage to save Handsome amount for their Family .. which they cannot save from any other work .....

I thoroughly have Respect all your Comments ... please discuss more so we can have some Positive Outcome ....

Regards.

PRIMEDUDE ...

IACSman: Thank you. Your comment just shows that despite all the conventions & all the press publicity: Nothing has really changed.
But I will say this: I am sure all the delegates who attended that convention, stayed in beautifully appointed rooms. In which they contemplated their comments for the next day...which amounted to "very little".
Sorry...but it will be forever so. "Well, I can't do anything. Not my problem"...

Hi Capt Ted: I knew you'd respond as a true observer. Let's see what others think.

Interesting how people talking about poor conditions for peoples work. Are those workers there really poor and bad off for THEIR country ?
Reminds me always on Filipino sailors, AB,s making now rough 1800 $ per month,, seems low, BUT for their country where the average income is 300 a month may be 1800 is a lot !!! Now take a Filipino Master with 8000 $ or more !!! they are rich in their country ... Trust me I am not in mine !!!
So,,it is rather relaltiv from the view of people in Western countries,,are they poor in the eyes of their own peoples,,may be not so much. And what we want,,make all equal income,, hmm,, that would mean a lot of cheap things we take for granted are gone then !!! No more Walmart in US or Woolworth in UK or Karstadt in Germany and so on with cheap wares. Put it this way,,you can,t have it all !!!

Pressurizing/writing to MP's in Pakistan is no use. The pressure has to be put on owners who still insist on "just scrapping" and not re-cycling the vessels in accordance with the Hong Kong conevntion. True, this convention is also not a glorified solution to all of these problems, but a step in the right direction. Put pressure on owners of vessels, inform journalist of who these owners/companies are. Put them in the spotlight, somehow they don't like it ;-). None of us can solve this alone, but we are not totally helpless, there is no excuse to just say; "Well, I can't do anything. Not my problem"...

Well, kenharris....it's been this way for many years.
These people are abused by their own people.
The Government of Pakistan will do nothing.
The people of Pakistan will do nothing.
What do you suggest "ship-spotters" should do? Write to their MP?
I am not apathetic to their plight.....But from a distance....What do you suggest?

Just a short brake & another monster will go down under the cutting torch!

Informative picture. No hard hats gloves or protective footwear. It is a scandal that men and women have to work in these conditions for next to nothing in the 21st century.

Striking pic., looking like a giant beached monster with these so poorly equiped scrapyard workers at the ready! mrdot.