The monitoring of the shipbreaking industry is especially weak in Bangladesh, which is why it is the most popular destination internationally. Bareesh explains: “Ships are filled with harmful gases, asbestos, and the shipbreaking yards [contain] dangerously high levels of lead, of cadmium, of arsenic”. Zahir runs a new “Green Company”, under stricter regulations. While profit extraction and corner-cutting are significant factors in this disastrously dangerous profession, Zahir argues that the ship-breaking crisis exposes a larger imbalance at play: “A ship is built in a developed world and they make profit from it for 30 years. We get it for six months, and all the blame comes on us”.