Danish shipowner Maersk Line is strongly denying rumours circulating around Alang that a worker has died at a facility it is using to demolish one of its end-of-life containerships.

Local sources tell TradeWinds that a worker died after a fall, with one identifying the facility as the Lucky Group shipbreaking yard, where a Maersk boxship is being scrapped.

However, both Maersk and Lucky Group have strongly denied such an accident took place.