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-7 Chittagong-7 Chittagong-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Muhammad Hasan Mahmud of the Awami League. The constituency encompasses Rangunia Upazila and one union parishad of Boalkhali Upazila: Sreepur Kharandwip. The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission renumbered the seat for Sandwip Upazila