Western Marine Shipyard has signed a new agreement for the construction of two container ships. These ships will be constructed for Neepa Paribahan Ltd and Mir & Islam Enterprise.
The deal was signed by the Managing Director of Western Marine Shipyard Mr. Sakhawat Hossain with the Managing Director of Neepa Paribahan Ltd Mr. Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury & the Managing Director of Mir & Islam Enterprise Mr. Mir Mahmood Ali on behalf of their respective organizations.
The ships will be having a capacity of 160 TEUs of container & will operate to carry containers from Chittagong Port to Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (PICT).
The government has issued 50 licenses for inland container ships which shall ply in this route. Western marine has already secured orders of 6 ships into their basket from these. Recently the shipyard has enhanced its capacity & they plan to build more 20 container ships. The ship will be constructed under class Germanischer Lloyd ensuring its best quality.
Each of these ships will cost BDT25crore and they have been designed uniquely for the inland & coastal route of Bangladesh. So far Western Marine has built nine container vessels (multi-purpose) which has been exported to Europe.
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WMS, April 16, 2013