Shipyard

Shipyard

Western Marine Shipyard hands over three newly built landing craft to UAE-based Marwan Shipping during a ceremony aboard the vessel Maya on the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram 20 November 2025. Photo: Md Minhaj Uddin

Leveraging fleet expansion to build national shipbuilding capacity

As the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation resumes fleet expansion after years of stagnation, the question is no longer how many ships we buy, but how we buy them — and whether this demand can finally...

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US Embassy team visits Chattogram shipbreaking yard to explore investment prospects

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1 dead, 3 hospitalised after inhaling toxic gas in Ctg oil depot

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12 workers burnt in Chattogram shipyard explosion

File photo of the High Court division building of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. Photo: Collected

Forest land leased for shipyard: HC issues contempt rule against Ctg official 

Bangladesh Ship Breakers and Recyclers Association during the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the association held at a local hotel in the port city on Thursday (9 November). Photo: TBS

Bangladesh Ship Breakers and Recyclers Association for turning all shipyards into green yards

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First-ever South Korean ship enters Bangladesh for green recycling

Skill project creates jobs in steel mills, shipyards at home and abroad

Skill project creates jobs in steel mills, shipyards at home and abroad

KSBL Founder and Managing Director Engineer Abdur Rashid. Illustration: TBS

'Karnafuly dry-dock, jetties to cut trade cost, boost port capacity'

Workers often sustain severe casualties due to unplanned work practices, and the number is not negligible. All these hazards and casualties are avoidable if proper actions are taken. PHOTO: REUTERS

Towards a safer ship recycling industry

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Khulna Shipyard to make two modern tugboats 

Dredging helps increase the depth of rivers but the riverbeds get strewn with silt again the next monsoon. A dredging site at a char in Padma River. Photo: Mumit M

Khulna Shipyard inks Tk423cr deal to make 4 dredgers for BIWTA

Shipyard in Patuakhali

Biggest FDI for state-of-the-art shipyard in Patuakhali proposed