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Shipping’s dirty secret

Assignment lifts the lid on the dangerous and polluting world of shipbreaking and investigates why ships once owned by UK companies end their lives on beaches in South East Asia.

The shipping industry is worth millions to the world economy and we depend on it for most of our goods. Assignment lifts the lid on the dangerous and polluting world of shipbreaking and investigates why ships once owned by UK companies end their lives on beaches in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

(Image: Bangladeshi labourers and docked ships at a shipbreaking yard. Credit: Farjana Khan Godhuly/AFP via Getty Images)

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23 minutes

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Thu 25 Mar 202121:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia, East and Southern Africa, South Asia, West and Central Africa & East Asia only

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  • Thu 25 Mar 202104:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Thu 25 Mar 202109:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Thu 25 Mar 202113:32GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
  • Thu 25 Mar 202120:06GMT
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  • Thu 25 Mar 202121:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia, East and Southern Africa, South Asia, West and Central Africa & East Asia only

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