Dismantling aircraft carriers

Michael Furgatch is involved in a fascinating business in Brownsville. “It’s scrap recycling but it’s ship dismantling,” he says. “We take government ships, private ships, commercial ships, offshore drilling rigs, barges, whatever and we dismantle them. That means cutting them up for scrap and we recycle all the materials. The government ships come from the east coast and the west coa...

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