This is most likely a scrapping beach, there are several in India but they can be found in any number of countries.
The ship is beached during high tide, then over days or weeks the ship is dismantled, sometimes with nothing more than hammers beating the steel apart, then the steel is sold or scrap.
This looks like a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh, where laborers perform dangerous work dismantling old ships full of toxic materials without any health or safety protections for something like $1 a day.
This is most likely a scrapping beach, there are several in India but they can be found in any number of countries.
The ship is beached during high tide, then over days or weeks the ship is dismantled, sometimes with nothing more than hammers beating the steel apart, then the steel is sold or scrap.
This looks like a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh, where laborers perform dangerous work dismantling old ships full of toxic materials without any health or safety protections for something like $1 a day.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/shipbreakers/gwin-text