In 2021, the volume of vessels sent to the scrapyard amounted to about 15.3 million gross tons. Some of the major destinations for ship scrapping were India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Turkey.
Reported shipping tonnage sold for demolition worldwide from 2014 to 2021
(in 1,000 gross tons)
Characteristic
Tonnage sold for demolition in thousand gross tons
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