While many artists would scoff at the idea of painting a big, box-shaped, steel ship, Peter Max is excited by the idea.

FORBES: Connect

This argument has some merit, mainly because price pressure clearly comes from the ability to ship steel from low-cost developing countries to more mature economies.

ECONOMIST: The steel industry

Tata, which mines all the iron ore and coal it needs, now aims to carry out primary steel production close to its iron-ore deposits, and then ship semi-finished steel for finishing close to foreign consumer markets.

ECONOMIST: Why the Tata-Corus deal makes sense for both parties

On the main deck, crew members using a crane transferred several tons of steel beams and plating to the other ship.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings and fore-and-after bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship .

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

Typically 95% of a ship's structure is reusable, most of it valuable steel.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

The countries where ship-breaking now takes place sorely need that income and steel it generates, and can largely ignore nettlesome safety regulations.

ECONOMIST: Monitor