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Between 300 and 500 workers can spend up to four months dismantling a single ship in Sitakunda Beach, Bangladesh, February 2012. A look inside Bangladesh’s ship breaking yards reveal the brutal conditions workers are subjected to everyday. The taskforce work 12-14 hours a day of manual labour for approximately $1.9 in pay. The ship breaking industry began in the 1960s and 70s after a ship washed up on Sitakunda beach and was later sold for scrap, now Bangladesh is one of the world’s leaders in ship breaking. After living in Dhaka, Bangladesh for five years, photographer Jan Møller Hansen flew to the port city of Chittagong to document the ship breaking industry. (Photo by Jan Møller Hansen/Barcroft Images)
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