Gadani Yard: Last destination of many ships and cruises
One of the world's biggest shipbreaking facilities is located in Pakistan at the Gadani shipbreaking yard. In the world, there are various kinds of ship graveyards. The Gadani ship-breaking yard is situated about 25 miles or 40 kilometers northwest of Karachi, which is Pakistan's largest city. The Gadani Yard is the third-largest shipbreaking yard in the world.
It has a total of about 132 ship-breaking plots. Gadani was founded in the 1980s and once held the title of the world's largest ship-breaking yard. It employed over 30,000 people directly. However, now it is facing increasing competition in recent years from newer yards on the subcontinent.
Gadani is still the third-largest Yard, but it is only about a fifth as big as it was in the 1980s. Where it employed about 30,000 ...