Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A place in India?
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 0:17 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
 
Greg Locke wrote:

> Does anyone remember seeing pictures of, or know the name of the place 
> in
> India (or maybe Bangladesh?) where the local people scrap ships on the 
> beach???

Alang, in Gujarat is the largest (the dealers there buy half a *billion* 
Dollars worth of ships every year). There's another one in Bangladesh, but 
I can't remember the name.

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