01 — Local economy
Business in Bhavnagar
Ships beached and dismantled at Alang, in Bhavnagar district, feed a chain of re-rolling mills, oxygen plants and second-hand goods markets that sell everything from steel plate to marine furniture. Diamond-cutting workshops linked to Surat employ many in the city, salt pans and marine-chemical plants line the coast, and Mahuva, further south in the district, is a centre for dehydrated onion and garlic.
Where software helps: Ship-recycling yards and re-rollers here buy whole vessels by light-displacement tonnage, then must track what each ship yields in plate, scrap, machinery and fittings, along with hazardous-material records and buyer payments.