Logistic is big, logistic travels on wheels, air, but mostly via sea. You can store oil in a ship, cars, TVs, sneackers, food of any kind, etc. A ship can last for many years, some of them thirty, fourty years, but then the structure starts to weaken and it is time to retire the ship. Where do they go after they are done using them? Not in heaven, but in countries where the need for raw material is high. Commercial ships (cargo and leasure) are sent in nations like India or China where hundreds of workers slowly disassamble them to recycle metals like steel, iron, led and copper. Why does this happen? Because eastern Asia is willing to do (once again) the western-world's dirty job.
The work place, a shallow part of the sea side where ships rests there like carcasses, waiting to be disected.
Workers are way below the minimal wage, they work in critical conditions with no safety items like helmets, gloves or boots; they simply take-a-part ships like oil tankers and separate different components.
Workers moving in group a freshly cutted part of a ship
Heavy parts are moved only by groups of men.
No safety equipment, just your tool to go through all day.
Workers pulling a ship?
The break: tea (chai), coffee, cigarettes, tips and mostly rants.
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