Bangladesh

HOUSTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – , which is developing a 25 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) LNG facility in Louisiana, has signed a non-binding

In a dramatic scene off the coast of Bangladesh, two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers erupted in flames during a cargo transshipment operation on Sunday.

One of the world’s top ship breaking nations is moving to clean up its act when it comes to dismantling end-of-life ships. In a significant move towards

By Ruma Paul and Jonathan Saul DHAKA, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC)

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is drawing attention to a recent spate of accidents at Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards owned by Kabir Steel Re-Rolling Mills

By Ruma Paul (Reuters) – Firefighters in Bangladesh battled for a third day on Monday to stamp out a massive fire that killed 41

By Naimul Karim CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh, Nov 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Samrat Hossain first started cutting up old ships weighing thousands of

DHAKA, Aug 27 (Reuters) — At least 19 people were killed and dozens were missing after a boat packed with passengers slammed into a vessel transporting

By Naimul Karim DHAKA, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was

By Naimul Karim DHAKA, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of

Two workers were killed and thirteen others were injured in an accident at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh. The accident took place Saturday at the Ziri

by Jessica Jaganathan (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s second liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and regasification vessel has moored off the country’s

By Ruma Paul DHAKA, Aug 2 (Reuters) – A vessel that arrived in Bangladesh in April to offload its maiden cargo of liquefied natural gas and moor

DHAKA, June 13 (Reuters) – Three bodies were recovered on Tuesday from the Bay of Bengal, where 86 fishermen remain missing after a cyclonic storm in the

At least 66 people died when a passenger ferry carrying more than 150 passengers and crew capsized after colliding with a trawler on a river in central

A special Bangladesh anti-crime unit on Wednesday arrested the owner of a ferry that sank in a river killing about 110 people, the first time authorities took

A ferry with about 200 passengers aboard capsized on Monday in the river Padma southwest of Dhaka and rescue teams took about half of them to safety, the chief

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 17 (Reuters) – Rescue workers in Bangladesh completed the search of a stricken river ferry on Saturday, bringing the number

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 15 (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi river ferry with around 200 passengers on board capsized in a storm on Thursday, killing at

DHAKA, Feb 9 (Reuters) – At least 14 people died and five were still missing after a ferry carrying 50 people collided with a sand barge and sank on