[🇧🇩] Exporting various kinds of ships by Bangladeshi ship builders.

[Saif]

Date of Event: Jul 17, 2025

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYT4NNprmyY

A reputed ship building company of Bangladesh, Western Marine Shipyard, is all set to export two high powered Tug Boats to United Arab Emirates. Western Marine Shipyard is also aiming at exporting two Ferry Boats and one Oil Tanker to United Arab Emirates

 

[Saif]

Western Marine delivers two tugboats to UAE buyer

Leading shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard Limited delivered two high-powered tugboats to a buyer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday.

www.thedailystar.net

Western Marine delivers two tugboats to UAE buyer

Photo: Rajib Raihan

Leading shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard Limited delivered two high-powered tugboats to a buyer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday.

Delivery of these two tugboats is part of the deal the shipyard made in 2023 for exporting a total of 8 ships to the UAE firm Marwan Shipping Limited.

The export value of the two tugboats — 40-metre-long 'Khalid' and 32-metre-long 'Ghaya' — stood at $1.53 million, officials disclosed at the delivery ceremony held on board the Western Cruise ship anchored at the jetty of Chattogram Boat Club.

The UAE firm is supplying all the raw materials for building these ships and is only paying construction charges to the shipyard, they informed.

Speaking as the chief guest at the delivery ceremony, Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Hafiz, special assistant to the Chief Adviser for defence and the development of national harmony, said the global shipbuilding sector annually generates around $400 billion worth of revenue.

"Half of the total market is for ships that Bangladeshi shipbuilders are fully capable of producing," he said, urging local firms to aim for capturing at least one percent of the $200 billion global market. He thanked Marwan Shipping Ltd for keeping trust in the Bangladeshi workers' skills.

Western Marine Managing Director Captain Sohail Hasan said the two tugboats, which are high-power offshore support vessels, have been constructed in line with the highest classification standards.

Ghaya has been constructed under French classification society Bureau Veritas, while Khalid was constructed under the classification of American Bureau of Shipping, Sohail informed.

Humaid Mohammed Abdullah Darwish Al Tamimi, charge d'affaires of the UAE Embassy in Dhaka, and Marwan Shipping Ltd Managing Director Ahmed Almarzooqi also spoke at the ceremony.

The company signed a deal worth $7.3 million in 2023 with the UAE-based buyer, Marwan Shipping, for the construction of four landing craft vessels, two tugboats and two oil tankers.

In January, a 69-metre-long landing craft named 'Rayan' was successfully delivered. The remaining five vessels are scheduled to be handed over between 2025 and 2026.​

 

[Bilal9]

The tugboats being exported to the UAE are part of a series, these are the first two...and maybe more than eight as stated above.

 

[Saif]

The tugboats being exported to the UAE are part of a series, these are the first two...and maybe more than eight as stated above.

Already posted, Bilal bhai