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Shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh: transformation causing job losses in Sitakund

Bangladesh's shipbreaking industry is transforming, with safer and cleaner shipyards replacing a once hazardous sector. But the transition has cost thousands of jobs, forcing many former workers to return to traditional fishing to rebuild their livelihoods.

Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports.

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