Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard Maersk to stop using the yard for breaking its old ships, despite the higher costs elsewhere. A scene of the movie "" was shot at the ship breaking yards of Chittagong. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard is located in Faujdarhat, Sitakunda Upazila, Bangladesh along the Sitakunda coastal strip, north-west of Chittagong. Handling about a fifth of the world’s total, it is the world's largest ship breaking industry, employs over 200,000 Bangladeshis, and accounts for around one-half of all the steel in Bangladesh. In 1960, after a severe cyclone, the Greek ship "M D Alpine" was stranded on
Chittagong-16 seats (Chittagong-8, 9, and 10) could be split into four (Chittagong-7, 8, 9, and 10). Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission renumbered the seat for Sandwip Upazila from Chittagong-16 back to Chittagong-3, bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and the higher numbered constituencies in the district. Thus Chittagong-16 covers the area covered in 2008 by Chittagong-15. Chittagong-16 Chittagong-16 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury of the Awami League. The constituency encompasses Banshkhali Upazila. The constituency was created when,