The infrastructure facilities originally consisted of two wet basins, one 680 meters long and 65 meters wide and the other 680 meters long and 60 meters wide. The first of these wet docks has been converted into a dry dock measuring 662 meters long and 65 meters wide, the second largest in the world.
The dry dock is serviced by two Goliath cranes 148 meters span and 75 meters high, each with lifting capacity of 600 tons. Together, these cranes can lift weights of up to 1,200 tons. Also available at the site are two Level Luffing cranes, with a combined lifting capacity of 80 tons. The entrance of the dry dock also features a 100 meter extension track for the Goliath cranes to unload heavy machinery and equipment directly from ships and heavy lift barges.
lmao...A Bangladeshi boasting about their shipbuilding industry.What are you capable of building ? 7000 DWT coasters ?
Your shipyards cannot compete with Indian private sector companies like Pipvav,L &T or ABG or PSUs like Cochin shipyard.
And who told you we don't export ships,this single ship would displace more than the combined displacement of all your ship exports
One of the 74,000 DWT Bulk carriers made by Pipvav shipyard for Golden Ocean group
Have your shipbuilders ever heard of modular construction ??
Your shipyards can compete with our tier 2/tier 3 shipyards,I suppose..
Chowgule and Co. Pvt. Ltd. - Chowgule & Co. Pvt. Ltd. - Shipbuilding Division | Products & Services
http://shipbuilding.chowgule.co.in/images/downloads/pdf/EnglishBrochure.pdf
Bangladesh shipyard labor costs are one third of Indian shipyard labor cost. This is reality. Plus Indian yards are running full bore with foreign bulker orders and local Navy orders.
We are not in competition with Indian yards which build much larger ships. However we have been building smaller and more specialized ships for much longer than Indian yards (since world war II). Local yards have always built sea-faring ships - and some for the British Navy which fought in the battle of Trafalgar. This is well-documented. Just because some in India don't know this doesn't make any difference.
For those uninitiated in shipbuilding -
Here's one of a series of ten (mini bulker 8000 DWT) being built for Jindal JSW in India (presumably for Indian coastal trade). There will be many more. Small ships or large doesn't matter. Revenue is revenue. We've also built many ships for Pakistan.
- Our 1st and 2nd tier yards can easily go head-to-head with their equivalents in India quality-wise.
- Most 1st and 2nd Tier Bangladeshi yards build ships under international shipbuilding norms and classes (such as GL) as spec'd by the buyer.
- Our labor costs as mentioned is one-third of India's. Even lower than antiquated Kolkata yards.
- Orders frequently come to us for quality reasons rather than cost reasons - bounced back from Indian yards.
- Modular shipbuilding is more common for large bulkers but local 1st tier builders have built modular components for many of their builds. Especially those for Danish, Norwegian and German markets. See the last image below.
- That image the OP posted is for a local riverine coaster and is being built at a Tier III yard. Cost is the driver and not industry norms.
- Length OA: 122.25 m Length BP: 117.10 m Breadth MLD: 20.00 m Depth MLD: 07.20m
- Deadweight: 8,000 DWT
- Trial speed (loaded): 10 knots
- Fuel consumption: approx.196 gm/kwhr
- Engine Power:1330 kW @ 900 RPM, Yanmar, Japan
- Class: Indian Register of Shipping (IRS)
- Registration/Flag: India
MV Mataliki, an Intl. SOLAS Passenger Ship that Western Marine Shipyard built for New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Bangladesh specializes in all types of smaller category special-purpose ships.
Western Marine Shipyard Limited being visited by delegation from National Defence College (NDC), India & Asst. High Commissioner of India in Chittagong on 26 Aug, 2014.
Another specialized product from Western Marine, 'EMSFLOW' is a 5200 DWT MPC ship certified as an E3 ice-class vessel which means it is designed & equipped to sustain itself in cryogenic weather conditions. Around 1500 tonnes of ice-class steel were fabricated using 60 tonnes of welding electrodes to build each ship while 23 kilometers of marine cables and 24,000 liters of paints were used for her skin protection.
EMSFLOW in rough weather at Atlantic Sea
Just today in channel 24 news, I saw a reporting about Khulna shipyard is building two large offshore patrol vessel (LPV) costing Taka 800 crore (103 million USD) .Each of them 64 meters long and have anti-sub warfare capability along others characteristics which I have forgotten.They are almost nearing their construction process and will be commissioned in next year. But Bharati reporter here educating us that BD have no shipbuilding facility and looking towards KolkataKOLKATA: After the successful commissioning of the offshore patrol vessel Barracuda into the Mauritian Coast Guard, Bangladesh is considering the possibility of ordering warships from India. The Barracuda was designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd in Kolkata. A few days ago, when Bangladesh Coast Guard director general Rear Admiral Mohammad Makbul
Defence experts believe that it will be a major event if Bangladesh places orders for ships from GRSE. This will reduce Bangladesh's reliance on China and Pakistan for military hardware. "Countries like Bangladesh don't have shipbuilding facilities of their own.They rely on other countries for ships and other military hardware. China has already made it clear that it is keen to extend support to countries in the Indian sub-continent. This is a matter of grave concern. Many of these countries would not have turned to China had India not behaved in such a ham-handed manner in the past. Countries like Myanmar had sought a credit line from India in the past in the form of military vessels. It turned towards China after India turned down the offer. Today, we are learning that it pays to make friends in the neighbourhood," one of them said.
In fact, Bangladesh has already used a ship built by GRSE. The first warship built in India was the INS Ajay. This was delivered to the Navy by GRSE in 1961. In 1974, the ship was gifted to Bangladesh after a major refit. There it was renamed BNS Surma.
Bangladesh comes window-shopping for ships to Kolkata - The Times of India
to give us a ship. Seems like Bharati self importance are reaching Mars after reaching sky high.
Just today in channel 24 news, I saw a reporting about Khulna shipyard is building two large offshore patrol vessel (LPV) costing Taka 800 crore (103 million USD) .Each of them 64 meters long and have anti-sub warfare capability along others characteristics which I have forgotten.They are almost nearing their construction process and will be commissioned in next year. But Bharati reporter here educating us that BD have no shipbuilding facility and looking towards Kolkata
