 | Two ships delivered to German owner
27 November, 2010
Bangladesh's leading ship building company, Western Marine Shipyard, delivered today two ocean-going vessels to its German owner, Grona Shipping GmbH Co KG.
Saiful Islam, chairman of Western Marine Shipyard finally delivered the twin vessels - Grona Ammersum and Grona Biessum - the ever-largest ships built by a Bangladeshi company to Markku Vedder, representative of Grona Shipping at a handing-over ceremony held at the Chittagong Dry Dock.
Minister of Industries Dilip Barua was present at the function as the chief guest while Martin Biesel, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and Holger Michael, German Ambassador to Bangladesh were present as the special guests.
The 100 metre-long 5200 DWT ice class vessels were built in compliance with all the latest International Maritime (IMO) guidelines under the supervision of class Germanischer Lloyd. The vessels went for a successful sea trial on November 15.
Addressing the function, Dilip Barua said the government is actively considering to establish a special shipbuilding zone to promote this 100 per cent export-oriented sector with the aim of earning US$5.00 billion a year in the form of export receipts by 2015.
Release link:http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=118491&date=2010-11-27
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