货船虽大 犹有竟时 油轮破浪 终为土灰
大型运输船只老旧之后的去处。
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Bangladesh
Anbarasan Ethirajan
Chittagong
Shitakunda
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翻译&注解：cjsfighthttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201209/201209090745187759926.mp3Now at any given moment, thousands of ships are criss-crossing the oceans, carrying containers, cargo and oil from one part of the globe to another. They transport, between them, 90% of the world's trade. And once these mighty vessels' natural lives are over, the unwanted ships need to be scrapped. It's no mean task, and indeed, no clean task when you're talking about an oil-drenched monster weighing, in some cases, up to half a million tonnes. Nearly all of the ships end up in scrapyards in Asia. And breaking up old ships has become a billion-dollar industry in one country - Bangladesh. It's been roaring ahead since restrictions there were eased last year. But questions persist about the cost to the local environment. The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan has been given rare access to one of the ship-breaking yards near the southern port city of Chittagong.
I'm now on the Shitakunda beach in southeastern Bangladesh. I can see old and broken ships all around this place. There are huge bulk carriers, container ships and even some oil tankers. This place is being described as the graveyard of ships. As unwanted ships reach the coastal area of Bangladesh, then they send a specialised team to beach these ships during high tide. As the unwanted touches the beach, and hundreds of workers get onto the ships and then they start dismantling it.现在随时随地，都有上千艘船只在海洋间穿梭。这些船载着集装箱、货物和石油从地球的一个地方驶向另一个地方。他们承载着世界贸易中90%的运输任务。一旦这些巨大轮船的自然生命终结，这些不被需要的船只就会被解体、废弃。这项工作并不简单，确实也并不干净，因为我们讨论的是油迹斑斑的巨形怪物，这其中有的将近50万公吨。几乎所有船只都会在亚洲的废船解体厂结束这一行。因此对旧船的解体工作就在一个国家——孟加拉国——成就了一项数十亿美元的产业。自去年各种限制解除后，孟加拉国的这项业务迅速增长。但是关于当地环境为此所作的牺牲和代价问题一直未被解决。BBC记者安巴拉森·阿斯拉让有个难得的机会走进南部港口城市吉大港的其中一座废船解体厂。
我现在在孟加拉东南部的西塔坤达海滩。我可以看到这个地方上散落的各种旧船和破船。这个地方被称作船只的墓地。当一些废弃的船只接近孟加拉的海岸海域，他们就会派遣一支特别小队就着高潮时将他们拉上岸。当船靠到了海滩后，上百个工人上船开始解体工作。
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