This chapter provides factual background to argue that workers’ deaths, injuries, and occupational diseases that occur in the shipbreaking industry are the issues of transnational injustice. It aims to conceptualise how the shipbreaking industry in South Asia and the global maritime industry, which represents shipowners, are inextricably linked to business profit, i.e., the profits that the maritime industry receives from the sale of ships to the shipbreaking industry in South Asia. Although the global maritime industry earns millions of dollars per annum from the sale of ships to the South Asian shipbreaking market, the industry has yet to call for, or contribute to, any scheme to provide adequate compensation to workers for death, injury, or disease-related economic loss.

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The Shipbreaking Industry in South Asia: Economic Gains and Profit-Making at the Cost of Workers’ Health and Safety

  • Mohammad Zulfikar Ali

摘要

This chapter provides factual background to argue that workers’ deaths, injuries, and occupational diseases that occur in the shipbreaking industry are the issues of transnational injustice. It aims to conceptualise how the shipbreaking industry in South Asia and the global maritime industry, which represents shipowners, are inextricably linked to business profit, i.e., the profits that the maritime industry receives from the sale of ships to the shipbreaking industry in South Asia. Although the global maritime industry earns millions of dollars per annum from the sale of ships to the South Asian shipbreaking market, the industry has yet to call for, or contribute to, any scheme to provide adequate compensation to workers for death, injury, or disease-related economic loss.