Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard 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 the shores of Sitakunda, Chittagong. It could not be re-floated and so remained there for several years. In 1965, Chittagong Steel House bought the ship and had it scrapped. It took
Chittagong College Chittagong College Chittagong College is a government college in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is the second college established in Bangladesh after Dhaka College. It offers Higher Secondary Education (HSC), bachelor's degree and master's degree. Having begun as Chittagong District school (now Chittagong Collegiate School) in 1836, it became an intermediate college in 1869. Its academic activities as a college started at a Portuguese-merchant built building beside Parade Ground. The first principal was J C Bose. It provided law education. But the subject suspended at 1909. In the same year it started providing science education in intermediate section from the 1909. The