List of ship breaking yards

This is a list of notable ship breaking yards:

Ship breaking yard	Country	City	Province	Founded	Plots	L (km)	ref
Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard	Bangladesh	Chittagong	Chittagong	1960		18	^[1]^[2]^[3]
Alang Ship Breaking Yard	India	Alang	Gujarat	1983	153		^[4]^[5]^[6]^[1]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Gadani Ship Breaking Yard	Pakistan	Gadani	Balochistan	1947	132	10	^[1]^[10]
Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard	Turkey	Aliağa	Izmir				^[1]^[11]^[12]
Able UK at Graythorpe Dock	United Kingdom	Teesside	Teesside
Galloo, Ghent, formerly Van Heyghen Recycling	Belgium
SteelCoast, Brownsville, Texas	United States
International Shipbreaking, Brownsville, Texas	United States
Mare Island Dry Docks, Vallejo, California	United States
Changjiang Ship Breaking Yard	China	Jiangyin
El-Tareq Ship- breaking Yard, Egypt, Suez	Egypt	Suez	Elattaka	2005		1.4

See also

• List of dry docks
• List of the largest shipbuilding companies
• List of shipbuilders and shipyards
• Israel Shipyards
• Ship breaking

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