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Ship Breaking Industry Project
Ship Breaking Industry Project
Contents at a Glance
Executive Summary
1.07 Conclusion………………………………………………………………….
Part II Appendix
In this research paper, we tried to investigate the current situation of the labor working in
the shipyard industry. We try to investigate things more closely. We used multi
dimensional data collection system and data analysis system. After that we tried to come
up with the result that is effective and relevant to the situation. We interpreted the result
in a way that is understandable to all. At the end we try tried to give some suggestions for
improvement of this industry through labor satisfaction. Our recommendation was based
on our analysis, so we hope that we will be able to fulfill our project objectives.
Our course instructor of MGT 351, Mr. Amitabh Bose Bapi, for executing this research
The current situation of the labors involving with the shipyard industry
1.01 Introduction:
The history of shipyard industry is not very long in our country. But the impact of this
industry is very large as it involves environment, government, human rights and economy
as well. Nearly 1 million people are directly or indirectly involve with shipyard industry.
Because of objection from environment and human rights group, this industry is facing a
tremendous criticism. Recently from our observation it has been found that, labors
working in this industry. In this study, we have showed a tremendous violation of human
rights. So in this paper we have tried to investigate.
The main objective behind our study is to bring out the real scenario of labor class people
in the shipyard industry. Besides we want to bring this issue in front of the general public,
govt. agencies and human rights agencies to make these groups of people understand
about the importance of the issue and to make collective efforts toward establishment of
full rights of labors, working in the shipyard industry.
The reason behind choosing this topic: there are basically 5 reasons behind choosing this
topic:--
1. It is one of the current issues and the growth of this industry is very high.
2. It mostly involve labor class people who are unaware about there rights.
3. Not a lot of research has been done on this topic.
4. 27% of the people in the north of Chittagong city on the Bay of Bengal directly or
in directly depends on this industry.
5. The importance of this industry has not yet been understood by government or
other agencies involving with this industry.
N.B: 46.42% of yard workers are illiterate while 43.02% attained primary school
education.
The shipbreaking industry started its operations in the 1960s when a Greek ship ‘MD
Alpine’ was stranded on the shores of Sitakund, Chittagong after a severe cyclone. The
ship remained there for a long time before the Chittagong Steel House brought the vessel
and scrapped it.
During the Liberation War in 1971, a Pakistani ship ‘Al Abbas’ was damaged by
bombing. It was later salvaged and brought to the Fauzdarhat seashore. In 1974,
Karnafully Metal Works Ltd bought it as scrap, introducing commercial shipbreaking in
Bangladesh. The industry flourished during the 1980s. Today it has become large and
profitable industry for Bangladesh.
1.04 Methodology:
Source of data:
We want to make sure that we have all the necessary data required to come up with
effective result. Therefore, we have combined both primary and secondary data collection
method. All data related to this study is attached with the appendix. Here we showed only
data collection method.
We developed two different structured questionnaires for two different classes of people.
The first one is for labor class which is more is to understand. The questions were formed
in a way that labors can answers only by saying yes or no. Questions that were asked to
researchers or owner of the company were little complicated and discussion based. In the
appendix we have showed sample of these questionnaires. In developing questions we try
to bring out the true scenery and we tried to be goal focused. We were fair by putting
views both from labors and owners.
Sample Size:
We surveyed among 1200 labors working in this industry in 10 different firms. We also
talked with the owner of those 10 companies operating in this industry. Besides, data was
also taken from government research agencies and internet as well. So, it is clearly visible
that our study is based on sufficient sample size.
Data analysis Technique: At first, we screened data and classified those data
according to importance. We tried to use different techniques of statistics to come up
with effective result. We did 3 hypothesis tests to clarify the issue and to make data
analysis process simple.
H1: The impact of working environment on labors health.
Besides, we also used some graphical presentation and tabulation for better and easy of
understanding.
We tried to make our data presentation easy to understand. Therefore we issued very
simple statistical tools, besides, we classified our data through tabulation and these
classified data were then processed and outcomes from the processed data were shown in
graphics and pie charts
1.05 Results:
Results from hypothesis tests are one of the finest finding of our study. In case of first
hypothesis, we have found that, the hostile working environment effect the health of the
labors. People who are working in that environment have an average life of 40 years.
Beside risk of major injury in the working environment is very high.
In the majority of the shipyards, workers are being deprived of their rights. They work
under risky conditions but have no access to safety equipment, job security or a living
wage.
Factors Percentage of
Satisfaction
Salary 10%
Medical Allowance 08%
Over time payment 23%
1.06 Recommendation:
Increasing the quality of work place
Proper implementation of EEO and laws and regulations involving this industry
The shipyard industry and its future prospect in our country is very high. But taking the
full advantage of this industry depends on labor satisfactions. And from our survey we’ve
found that it is possible only when there will be proper implementation of our
recommendation. We believe our study contents enough information on the basis of
which govt. and other human rights agencies can take key decisions regarding shipyard
industry. This is where the reward of all of our efforts lies.