Mahamud Hasan

Western Marine Shipyard Ltd.

Western Marine Shipyard, known as the leading shipbuilder of Bangladesh. The mother company Western Marine Services was initially formed by a group of marine professionals specialized in ship repairing & export of marine supplies. The major intention of the company's founders was to develop a cluster of technological excellence to meet global demand of the maritime industry. Gradually the company developed as a shipbuilder with its own shipyard in the eastern bank of river Karnaphuli in Chittagong in the year 2000 over a land of 1.5 acres for building inland vessels. Today Western Marine Shipyard is the leading shipbuilder in the country standing over 42 acres of land, modernized into a world-class shipyard consisting all sort of hi-tech & heavy tech machinery through an investment of Tk.300 crore. It is an employment source of 3500 manpower including skilled, semi-skilled labours. More than five hundred professionals are working in the shipyard including marine, mechanical, electrical engineers, naval architects & experts in other fields. The yard gained recognition so rapid that its fame spread all over the world at a short period, as a result, today they are constructing ocean-going vessels for Germany, Denmark, & Pakistan. They have achieved remarkable international orders of shipbuilding in recent years, which are 8 MP vessels for Grona Shipping in Germany; 5 Ice-class Container Vessels for Stella Shipping in Denmark; 1 Floating Reception Vessel from LAMOR Corp. AB in Finland; 2 Passenger Vessels for Karachi Port Trust (KPT), Pakistan; & 1 Car Ferry for Hundested-Rørvig Færgefart in Denmark. Out of these foreign orders, they have successfully delivered eight 5200 DWT MPC vessels to Grona Shipping, one floating reception vessel to LAMOR & two passenger ships to KPT, one car ferry & one 41000DWT MPC ship. They have built more than 60 ships for coastal & inland use & newbuilding of more than 30 ships are in progress which includes deep sea fishing trawlers, port utility vessels, tugs, inland container ships, inland tankers & passenger ships. Recently they have signed a contract for building one aluminium body passenger ship for Tanzania. This will be catamaran type designed ship with twin hull.