Gadani

Gadani

2024
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, #146, 174 x 130 x 14cm
Private collection, Netherlands.

On November 1 2016 an exploding gas tank led to an enormous fire on the oil tanker Aces at Gadani Ship Breaking Yard, Gaddani, Las Bela, Balochistan, in Pakistan. Officially there were 26 workers dead and 58 injured, but there are those who say it is more likely 80 men were killed. This catastrophe briefly caused worldwide outrage and discussion about worker safety on breaking yards like Gadani in Pakistan and Chittagong in Bangladesh. Sadly nothing has improved since, a grave injustice. The ships that get demolished there by guys in shorts wearing flip-flops are the same ships that have hauled our goods across the oceans. At the end of their life cycle they get sold to a paper company in a country with zero rules for their disposal, neatly beyond the responsibility of the companies that have built and exploited them.

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