Navy gets submarine tugboat, large patrol craft

[rome333]

Frigate construction will also start soon at Chittagong dry dock
Now three shipyards are active.
Narayangang Shipyard which is making small patrol boats, Khulna Shipyard is making upto Corvette sided ships
and Recently active Chittagong dry dock is on the process to make Frigate sized ships

Our PM have announced of another Shipyard at Payra.

 

[Nilgiri]

Frigate construction will also start soon at Chittagong dry dock
Now three shipyards are active.
Narayangang Shipyard which is making small patrol boats, Khulna Shipyard is making upto Corvette sided ships
and Recently active Chittagong dry dock is on the process to make Frigate sized ships

Good on you buddy. Like I said sunrise industry time is the most fun part. I saw the similar excitement in India for auto industry during the 90s....though I didnt really understand it at the time (past seeing that maruti is kicking the butt of ambies and fiats lol).

Now lets see how long and deep this phase for BD will be. It needs much time and development of allied sectors and demand. Brand name BD past RMG needs time to establish and grow meaningfully, cannot be predicted now. You need the right people in charge and right govt ministers to get the crucial hard work on policy/promotion done over next 5 year span. The later you are to the show, the harder you have to work to grab and establish part of the global pie (past meeting your own market).

 

[Bilal9]

History of Shipbuilding in Bangladesh​

The history of indigenous shipbuilding in Bangladesh goes back a long way. It is one of the early industries developed in Bengal based on its old business of building boats and sea vessels. Bangladesh has a strong background in building ships since ancient times. Many countries of Asia and Europe regularly bought ships built in Chittagong.

Bangladesh has a strong background in building ships since ancient times. It is quite natural in that Bangladesh has more than 200 rivers with a total length of about 22,155km plus a long coast line on the Bay of Bengal. It is little known today that Bangladesh was the center of building ocean-going vessels in Asia between the 15th and 17th century.

In the early 19th century, the shipyards of Chittagong built many commercial ships of up to 1,000 tons and also British navy vessels that participated in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Due to this historic prosperous background and also a natural geographical advantage, there are presently more than 200 shipbuilding and ship-repair yards in Bangladesh.
Ship Building Industry in Bangladesh

Prospect of Shipbuilding Industry in Bangladesh:
The history of indigenous shipbuilding in Bangladesh goes back a long way. It began with wooden-bodied passenger vessels having two decks and gradually improved to steel-body construction of multi-deck passenger carriers in the eighties as the passenger transportation in riverine route peaked.

Cargo vessels under inland shipping ordinance began during the same period with sizes from 200 DWT to 500 DWT. Such construction did not require any organized dockyard or shipyard. These vessels were built on bare land on the riverside, scattered around the country especially where electricity was available on the river banks and construction of inland vessels flourished.

With the ship-breaking industry flourishing in Chittagong, availability of steel plates boosted the inland ship-building in the early nineties and various shipyards started to emerge in this sector. About two thousand locally-built cargo vessels of varying sizes -- from 500 DWT to 2000 DWT -- are now operating and one thousand vessels having 1000 passenger capacity each are transporting passengers on our inland riverine routes.

In then East Pakistan, selection of site for Khulna Shipyard was made in 1954. A German firm was responsible for the establishment of the shipyard. It took three years to build the shipyard. Work started in the shipyard in the month of November, 1957. A British consultancy firm was made responsible for running the shipyard. Since 1967, the shipyard was being run by the local engineers and staff. Engineering equipment, pumps for irrigation, cargo vessels for fertilizer and seed, oil tankers and rail crossing barges were built in this shipyard. Many organizations got their work done in this shipyard. Garbage trucks and foot-over bridges are being built by this shipyard. Six thousand and fifty new ships were built in this shipyard. In the mid 80's, the slipway carriage of the shipyard was broken in an accident. Then it became a losing concern. A decision was taken to transfer this yard to the Ministry of Defense. The Bangladesh Navy took over the management of the shipyard in October, 1999. Then it became vibrant again.

However, while the inland ship building was at its nascent stage, Bangladesh got its first exposure of international ship building in 1979. Japanese ship building giant, Mitsui Engineering and Ship Building Industry developed the first and the largest joint venture shipyard with High Speed Ship Building and Engineering Co. Ltd. at Fatullah. This joint venture enabled the first private sector ship repair building yard with modern facilities, slipways, workshops with Japanese management and local manpower and a proper shipyard emerged.

For the first time, High-speed with their Japanese partners was able to build vessels according to international classification for meeting national requirement. To mention a few achievements, this yard constructed five deep-sea fishing trawlers and participated in an international tender floated by the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization, UN) to build eight grain carriers.


Shipbuilding Industry of Bangladesh:
Before becoming a ship building nation, there are four mandatory conditions in order to produce ocean-going vessels: international standard shipbuilding practice, quality management system, coastal and riverine country, and infrastructure with proper sheds and skilled manpower. Bangladesh scores full marks on all these counts.

ASSL (Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd.) and WMS (Western Marine Shipyard) which are the most modern and largest shipyards in Bangladesh.

Ananda Builders (ASSL), an engineering firm, established a shipbuilding yard on the Buriganga River in 1983. With growing volume of business the yard was shifted in 1985 to its present location on the river Meghna, an hour's drive from the capital city Dhaka.
Western Marine Shipyard Ltd. (WMShL), started our shipbuilding activities since 1994. Finally the company was founded with its own slipways in 2000. It is located in Chittagong the major port city of Bangladesh.

With global shipbuilding orders of very large vessels increasing everyday, a market is emerging in Bangladesh for shipbuilding yards that can concentrate on producing smaller sea-going vessels as the industry leaders like China, South Korea and Vietnam go for the larger container ships, bulkers and tankers.

According to shipbuilding experts in this country and abroad, Bangladesh can emerge a surprise competitor in the small to medium ocean-going vessels market. This particularly applies to shipyards that until now were best known for scrapping and breaking ships, and not building them.

Two shipbuilders — Meghnaghat-based Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd (ASSL) emerged in 1999 with 80,000 square meters (or 20 acres) of total area and Chittagong-based Western Marine Shipyard Ltd (WMSL) — 40,000 square meters, which formed in 2002. They signed agreements and received foreign orders, with a combined worth of around USD 250 million. They are currently the only two shipyards receiving international orders. Ananda Shipyards said it signed agreements worth around $180 million while Chittagong-based Western Marine put its total orders to more than $70 million.

It's a huge leap forward for Bangladesh. If the trend continues, ship building in Bangladesh will be the second largest exporter after garments in couple of next years.

Shakhawat Hossain, Managing Director of Western Marine said: "If we can grab one per cent of the global order for small ships, the amount will be worth $4.0 billion. The global market for small ships is now about $400 billion."

Western Marine, which was inspired by professor Bari's venture, has also had a remarkable year in 2007 during which it signed deal worth over $80 million including the construction of five multipurpose cargo vessels for a Danish owner, each weighing 4100 tones.

Their comments follow what the experts said an epoch-making year for the country's ship building industry, which earlier had been languished in building smaller launches and tankers for local operators.

But recently, Leading local shipbuilders received export orders of world-class seagoing small, large and ice-class vessels worth 478 million US dollar.

Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd. (ASSL) received orders for export of 28 vessels valued at 348 million US dollar from different countries including the Netherlands. On the other hands, Western Marine Shipyard Ltd. (WMSL) got orders worth $130 million to export 12 vessels to a German company styled Grona Shipping. Shipbuilders say the huge orders were bagged due to the government's declaring the sector as thrust one.

Ananda signed deal with another German company to build four ships, each worth $17.5 million & two more deals worth $82 million in October and December in the year 2009.

Western Marine Shipyard Ltd. (WMSL), which has set up a modern slipway on the bank of the river Karnaphuli, has also signed a letter of intent with two foreign companies to construct 14 small vessels at a cost of around $150 million. It signed a full agreement with the two companies in June, 2010.

MD of WMSL, Mr. Hossain said:"To be frank, we are now swamped with orders. But with the existing capacity, we can only build vessels worth around $100 million a year,"

Western Marine Shipyard delivered two largest vessels ever built in the country to a German buyer in 2010.

The two 100-metre-long ice-class vessels of the company, Grona Ammersum and Grona Biessum, having a capacity of 5,200 DWT (deadweight tonnage), will be delivered to Grona Shipping GmbH at a ceremony at Chittagong Dry Dock Ltd.

The global financial recession dented many developed countries excepting developing ones including Bangladesh and that is why buyers of developed countries expressed their interest in giving shipbuilding orders to Bangladesh.

Chairman of Association of Export-Oriented Shipbuilding Industries of Bangladesh (AESIB) Abdullahhel Bari said, “The shipbuilding industry will be able to get diverse facilities from buyers like the country's garment industry if the government increases shipbuilding facilities.

There is no alternative to increasing shipbuilding facilities to be a major player in the international market as more than 50 percent ships are getting older than 20 years.”
Abdullahhel Bari also said: “To compete with many South Asian countries including India, Bangladesh should have at least 10 shipyards that involve cost of Taka 3,000 crore”

Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd. (ASSL) and Western Marine Shipyard Ltd (WMSL) are mainly producing multipurpose container vessels of 4500 dwt (dwt stands for Deadweight Tonnage, is a measure of how much mass or weight a ship can carry) up to 6100 dwt.

They have customers ranging from the local investors such as BIWTA (Bangladesh In Land Water Transport Authority), Roads and Highways, Chittagong Port Authority, Bangladesh Institute of Marine Technology (BIMT), Bangladesh Police and local tours and travels organizations like Hotel Sarina, Keari Sinbad through to international companies like Stella Shipping and Sea Consult Ltd of Denmark, Wessels Reederei GmbH and Komrowski Maritim GmbH of Germany.

Experts said Bangladesh has become a new destination for companies seeking construction of small ocean-going vessels as traditional shipbuilding nations such as South Korea and China now focus on building large ships. Even Vietnam, which is relatively new in ship building, is no longer interested to build small ships weighing up to 25,000 dead weight tones. Adding their reluctance has made India and Indonesia the new destinations for small shipbuilding, Mr. Hossain, MD of Western Marine said that, "They want to build bigger vessels because it is relatively cheaper and requires fewer people"

If we can grab one per cent of the global order for small ships, the amount will be worth $4.0 billion. The global market for small ships is now about $400 billion," said Shakhawat Hossain, managing director of Western Marine.

Their comments follow what the experts said an epoch-making year for the country's ship building industry, which earlier had been languished in building smaller launches and tankers for local operators.

Experts said the country has become a new destination for companies seeking construction of small ocean-going vessels as traditional shipbuilding nations such as South Korea and China now focus on building large ships.

Even Vietnam, which is relatively new in ship building, is no longer interested to build small ships weighing upto 25,000 dead weight tonnes.

"They want to build bigger vessels because it is relatively cheaper and requires fewer people," Hossain said, adding their reluctance has made India and Indonesia the new destinations for small shipbuilding.

The focus on Bangladesh came in April 2009 when Ananda signed deals worth around $100 million with two German shipping companies to build eight vessels with capacity for 325 containers by June 2010.

"As far as I know this was the single biggest export order for the country. The contract sealed our name as a new ship building country in the global map," Bari, a former professor of naval engineering, said.

Western Marine, which was inspired by professor Bari's venture has also had a remarkable year in 2007 during which it signed deal worth over $80 million including the construction of five multipurpose cargo vessel for a Danish owner, each weighing 4100 tonnes.

The company, which has set up a modern slipway on the bank of the river Karnaphuli, has also signed a letter of intent with two foreign companies to construct 14 small vessels at a cost of around $150 million.

"To be frank, we are now swamped with orders. But with the existing capacity, we can only build vessels worth around $100 million a year," Hossain said.

The sudden explosion of orders came after vigorous inspection by the shipping companies in the two shipyards. The shipyards had to upgrade their infrastructure to meet international standards the shipping companies were looking for.

"They're now convinced we can build ships and deliver them on time. We have also enough skilled workforce," said Bari, adding he planned to double his 700-strong workforce to fill the order.

"Ship building is in our blood. We have been doing it for thousands of years. Even today, majority of the workers in Singapore and Dubai shipyards are from Bangladesh," Hossain said.

According to the industry estimates, more than 100,000 Bangladeshis are now employed in Singapore, Korea and Dubai shipyards. "Some of them are now well-placed in mid-management," Hossain, who worked in top shipyard, said.

The country has also been known for its small shipbuilding industry, which churns out dozens of launches every year. Most of the nearly 3,000 launches, oil tankers and cargo ships that ply in Bangladesh waterways were made there.

Experts said it was only a matter of time before Bangladesh emerges as a major hub for building small ocean-going ships.

"The country has always had enough skilled and cheap workforce. Now it has the know-how and facilities," said C.F. Zaman, Bangladesh head of worldwide ship inspection agency Germanischer Lloyd.

It was the Germanischer Lloyd, which prompted Ananda and Western Marine to look for international order, offering them technological help to construct ocean-going vessels.

Now after several years of hard-work and promotion, Zaman said, he was seeing the fruits of his labour.

"I can easily foresee local shipbuilding emerging as a billion-dollar industry in four to five years' time. It can easily be a global leader in the small-ship making industry."

At GL's insistence, three more shipyards, High-speed at Meghnaghat, Karnaphuli shipyard in Chittagong and Narayanganj dry-dock have started upgrading their infrastructure to build seafaring ships.

"These three companies have ready-made manpower and the skill to build ships. Together, they built hundreds of launches and tankers for local market. With some technological help and upgraded infrastructure, they will soon be able to build ocean going ships," Zaman said.

Ananda chief Bari and Western Marine's Hossain said the industry even had the potential to dwarf the country's garments sector, the biggest export earner, in the long run.

"It took us 25 years to earn $10 billion a year in the garments sector. The shipbuilders can do it in less than 10 years," Bari said.

Ship building industry in Bangladesh is set to emerge as new export leader after two ship builders, they grabbed order worth over $250 million.

Meghnaghat-based Ananda Shipyards said it signed agreements worth around $180 million while Chittagong-based Western Marine put its total orders to more than $70 million.

"It's a huge leap forward for us. If the trend continues, ship building in Bangladesh will be the second largest exporter after garments in next couple of years," chairman of Ananda Shipbuilders Abdullahel Bari said.

Nowadays - Bangladesh yards specialize in smaller specialized builds for export which would be expensive to build in other countries like the following.

Offshore patrol Vessel for Kenyan Navy

Recent build started for a 3000 metric ton fishing trawler vessel for Norway

International SOLAS passenger ship MV MATALIKI
(IMO No: 9724934)
Customer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand

MV Mataliki in Apia Harbour, Samoa, Feb 2016

Bridge

WMS is building six 8000 DWT mini-bulk-carriers for JSW Jaigarh Port Ltd, India.

This is the first one.

 

[gslv mk3]

Now is the perfect time to send a delegation to India to sell a few of these as patrol craft to their Navy, with Chinese financing of course.

Yep & we should definitely cancel this & buy it.

In fact this could possibly be the most modern ship for them in this displacement class.

The fact is that we are not building any ships of that displacement class, because we aren't a puny brown water navy.

A couple of Incheon classes is what we have our eyes on, to build locally

In two decades ?

Offshore patrol Vessel for Kenyan Navy

Recent build started for a 3000 metric ton fishing trawler vessel for Norway

International SOLAS passenger ship MV MATALIKI
(IMO No: 9724934)
Customer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand

MV Mataliki in Apia Harbour, Samoa, Feb 2016

Bridge


WMS is building six 8000 DWT mini-bulk-carriers for JSW Jaigarh Port Ltd, India.

This is the first one.

Quite impressive, reminds me of the vessels we built during 1960s/70s

 

[damiendehorn]

Y

In two decades ?

No, from 2024-2026..... KSY, CGSY are due for major upgrade and brand new yard at Payra is on the drawing boards.

 

[gslv mk3]

No, from 2024-2026..... KSY, CGSY are due for major upgrade

I would love a source.

 

[damiendehorn]

I would love a source.

Soon very soon.....

 

[gslv mk3]

Soon very soon.....

And we'll have a ~10,000 tonne cruiser with ~90 VLS by that time. You'll hear about it very soon

 

[Nilgiri]

I would love a source.

Remember the sources that said Walton would be like a fortune500 company by now?

 

[Ideas_R_Bulletproof]

because we aren't a puny brown water navy.

so, we hope a stronger navy around you able to patrol "your" brown waters wouldn't make you nervous..... oh, you don't have one in that area..... so, you can borrow that service from ours.... we're trusted neighbours unlike India is to its neighbours....

Remember the sources that said Walton would be like a fortune500 company by now?

actually we don't follow those indices, because we're not subservient to those states.... even though you feel proud to be included in such indices..... its for weak countries like yours....

 

[Nilgiri]

actually we don't follow those indices, because we're not subservient to those states.... even though you feel proud to be included in such indices..... its for weak countries like yours....

Im talking about things as basic as revenue and net profit. The projections were so rosy from 2 - 3 years back....Walton on the cusp of this and that, would be exporting big time to ASEAN, China, India, Europe you name it ....and Bangladeshis themselves would be buying/consuming in the boatloads leading to the largest production chains the world has ever seen....

But the reality today is we can't find one decent and basic revenue or net income release by Walton or anyone else because everything fell so flat. Ouch.

How is fortune500 "indices" anyway? Its a basic world company listing by size categories. The projections being made about Walton certainly at one point made it look like assured fortune500 status among your BeeDee community

we're trusted neighbours unlike India is to its neighbours

Give us a dial if you ever need to be liberated again (lets see if the 3 million squeal story works again).....lets see who you can trust. Mujib and co certainly knew....and they paid for it with their lives at the hands of your own people.

 

[gslv mk3]

so, we hope a stronger navy around you able to patrol "your" brown waters wouldn't make you nervous..... oh, you don't have one in that area.....

Never knew that Bangladesh Navy was so strong.

 

[Ideas_R_Bulletproof]

Never knew that Bangladesh Navy was so strong.

we never wanted to give you shock.....

anyway, as I can see, my comments are being moderated....
so, not a lot I can comment here, I guess...

 

[Species]

so, we hope a stronger navy around you able to patrol "your" brown waters wouldn't make you nervous..... oh, you don't have one in that area..... so, you can borrow that service from ours.... we're trusted neighbours unlike India is to its neighbours....

actually we don't follow those indices, because we're not subservient to those states.... even though you feel proud to be included in such indices..... its for weak countries like yours....

Man, don't insult the Supa Pawa Indians, they are happy to legally sell out their sovereignty and still claim to be a Supa Pawa!

 

[gslv mk3]

we never wanted to give you shock.....

We are quite impressed

Man, don't insult the Supa Pawa Indians, they are happy to legally sell out their sovereignty and still claim to be a Supa Pawa!

Legally selling out sovereignty? Are we talking about Bangladesh here ?