Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard is the world's fourth largest

ship breaking Ship-breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction ...

yard located across a long

beachfront A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. In physical oceanography, a shore is the wider fringe that is geologically modified by the action of the body of water past ...

at Aliaga,

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. The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots."Turkey's Aliağa shipyard is where old ships go to die", 08 October 2020 (https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/turkeys-aliaga-shipyard-is-where-old-ships-go-to-die/images)

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