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Govt mulls setting up spl
shipbuilding zone
Barua tells handing over ceremony of 2
largest-ever Bangladesh-made vessels
Business
Staff Correspondent . Chittagong
Industries minister Dilip Barua said on Friday that the government was actively considering establishing a special shipbuilding zone to promote this cent per cent export-oriented sector with the target of earning $5 billion a year from exports by 2015.
The government has already declared shipbuilding as a thrust sector considering its potentials, the minister said while speaking as the chief guest of the handing-over ceremony of the two largest-ever ocean-going vessels built in Bangladesh by Western Marine Shipyard of Chittagong to a German shipping company.
He also said that the Bangladesh Bank was waiting for the green signal from the finance ministry to inject funds into the shipbuilding sector under a Tk 200 crore refinancing scheme.
Martin Biesel, the state secretary of the federal foreign office of Germany, and Holger Michael, the German ambassador to Bangladesh, were the special guests of the ceremony held on the Chittagong Dry Dock Limited premises.
Western Marine Shipyard chairman Saiful Islam handed over the vessels christened Grona Ammersum and Grona Biessum to Marku Vedder, representative of the German buyer.
Martin Biesel termed construction of the ships a great success of Bangladesh, which would encourage German entrepreneurs to invest more in this country.
Saiful Islam said the shipbuilding sector could increase the countrys GDP by at least 3 per cent within the next six years as the sector had been showing the potentials of becoming one of its largest foreign exchange-earning sectors.
Western Marine Shipyard managing director Sakhawat Hossain said they had used 1,500 tonnes of Ice Class steel and 60 tonnes of welding electrodes to build the vessels. Twenty-two kilometres of marine cable and 24,000 litres of Sigma paint were also been used for their skin protection and beautification.
He also said each of the 100-metre-long Ice Class vessels with a 5,200 deadweight tonnage was built in compliance with the latest International Maritime Organisation guidelines under the supervision of class Germanischer Lloyd.
shipbuilding zone
Barua tells handing over ceremony of 2
largest-ever Bangladesh-made vessels
Business
Staff Correspondent . Chittagong
Industries minister Dilip Barua said on Friday that the government was actively considering establishing a special shipbuilding zone to promote this cent per cent export-oriented sector with the target of earning $5 billion a year from exports by 2015.
The government has already declared shipbuilding as a thrust sector considering its potentials, the minister said while speaking as the chief guest of the handing-over ceremony of the two largest-ever ocean-going vessels built in Bangladesh by Western Marine Shipyard of Chittagong to a German shipping company.
He also said that the Bangladesh Bank was waiting for the green signal from the finance ministry to inject funds into the shipbuilding sector under a Tk 200 crore refinancing scheme.
Martin Biesel, the state secretary of the federal foreign office of Germany, and Holger Michael, the German ambassador to Bangladesh, were the special guests of the ceremony held on the Chittagong Dry Dock Limited premises.
Western Marine Shipyard chairman Saiful Islam handed over the vessels christened Grona Ammersum and Grona Biessum to Marku Vedder, representative of the German buyer.
Martin Biesel termed construction of the ships a great success of Bangladesh, which would encourage German entrepreneurs to invest more in this country.
Saiful Islam said the shipbuilding sector could increase the countrys GDP by at least 3 per cent within the next six years as the sector had been showing the potentials of becoming one of its largest foreign exchange-earning sectors.
Western Marine Shipyard managing director Sakhawat Hossain said they had used 1,500 tonnes of Ice Class steel and 60 tonnes of welding electrodes to build the vessels. Twenty-two kilometres of marine cable and 24,000 litres of Sigma paint were also been used for their skin protection and beautification.
He also said each of the 100-metre-long Ice Class vessels with a 5,200 deadweight tonnage was built in compliance with the latest International Maritime Organisation guidelines under the supervision of class Germanischer Lloyd.
