Description : A view of the ‘Royal Shipyard’ from the anchor hole of a ship. The unique continental shelf near Chittagong allow ships to be brought right up to the beach. In Bangladesh, ship breaking which is popularly known as 'beaching', started as a business in 1972. The Ship breaking Yards, on the beach of the Bay of Bengal, spreads about 8 square kilometers in Sitakunda of Chittagong. Bangladesh.