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Created 30 Jan 2009.  
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Reportage about the shipbreaking industry near Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Since Bangladesh does not possess mineral resources such as iron ore, it works out more cost-efficient to employ a large army of day-labourers to recycle the scrapped ships rather than to import ore. On average, a labourer can expect to earn a little more than 1 US Dollar per day.
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