Bangladesh Shipbuilding Industries

[British-Bangladeshi]

Thanks bro for the video's, I enjoyed watching them.

Shipbuilding, IT and Pharmacy will be the next big exporters, I sha'Allah.

[manbil777]

Here's a writeup about MV Enzian in Komrowski Maritime's .PDF magazine last year (3/2011). Obviously the ship was just launched in the water off the shipyard and fit-out was not complete (it may be by now and also delivered). The story is on page 10 but this is a large file.

Enzian is so far the largest specialized export ship (ICE class for navigating polar waters) built in Bangladesh for European market (6100 DWT).

http://www.komrowski.com/uploads/media/KM_03-11_01.pdf

[iftikhar63]

Originally Posted by manbil777

You're welcome Iftikhar.

Shipbuilding is bound to become the next exports boom story in this country after garments.

That promised boom was supposed to be footwear (say starting around mid nineties) but of course the arrival of the Chinese manufacturing juggernaut (and their massive govt. subsidies on shoe manufacturing) removed our competitive advantage.

In any case we should all pull together our resources (i.e. in the way of business matchmaking) to make the shipbuilding and large engg. item sector succeed. Those who speak Japanese, Chinese and Korean are in an excellent position to do this by bringing in subcontracts from those countries (say for large engg. items which can be built in a shipyard).

Indeed…. Leather, IT and Out Sourcing these were the potential sectors none of’em kept promises but ship building industry has so far done an excellent job. Fortunately, it is also the ‘Mother Industry’. I want to see this sector to grow faster – can’t wait to see yearly $2B revenue until 2015! Grow fast baby!!

[everywhere]

Originally Posted by manbil777

Good Call...

Where are the Filipino Shipyards as far as the market?

I thought they were building niche high-priced items like aluminum alloy yachts and catamarans for the Australian market?

Some sub-contacting for INCAT as well?

Shipyards in Manila, Subic Bay and Cebu kinda specialize in container vessels (for shipping companies) and yachts. I remember there's one shipbuilder delivered a catamaran for a client in the French colony of New Caledonia (near Australia) a few years back.

S. Korean shipbuilder Hanjin is currently building its first shipyard and repair facility in Mindanao - it's near Cagayan de Oro City.

Singapore, Hongkong and/or Dubai could be viable places if Bengali shipbuilders would like to pursue overseas IPO's.

[manbil777]

Originally Posted by everywhere

Shipyards in Manila, Subic Bay and Cebu kinda specialize in container vessels (for shipping companies) and yachts. I remember there's one shipbuilder delivered a catamaran for a client in the French colony of New Caledonia (near Australia) a few years back.

S. Korean shipbuilder Hanjin is currently building its first shipyard and repair facility in Mindanao - it's near Cagayan de Oro City.

Singapore, Hongkong and/or Dubai could be viable places if Bengali shipbuilders would like to pursue overseas IPO's.

Thank you much for the interesting information.

Hanjin Philippines (HHIC-Phil.) at Subic Bay is of course on another scale -- it has already built one(bulk carrier) 114,000 dwt vessel and has embarked on building a couple of 180,000 dwt tankers. One of their assembly halls is about a Kilometer long.

[manbil777]

In maximizing their return on investments (ROI) -- Bangladeshi shipbuilders should specialize in smaller specialized ships. Larger offshore vessels such as large harbor tugs, work-boats and crew supply vessels fall in this category. They can build a few to DNV international maritime standards for the local gas drilling and off shore usage to start with and then use that experience to attract overseas export-builds.

The maximum displacements for these vessels is small (not higher than about 300 tons -- ideal for smaller Bangladeshi yards) yet their value addition (profit margin) is higher compared to building cargo ships that are built at present. Plus the market for these are mainly in Asian and Middle Eastern ports. Currently these are built in smaller yards in S'pore and Dubai but some in the Philippines as well.

A few examples of the type built in Singapore (Keppel).





Some vessels built in Dubai (Grand Weld Yard). Last two are 40 meter class aluminum boats capable of 25 knots plus.

[everywhere]

Originally Posted by manbil777

Thank you much for the interesting information.

Hanjin Philippines (HHIC-Phil.) at Subic Bay is of course on another scale -- it has already built one(bulk carrier) 114,000 dwt vessel and has embarked on building a couple of 180,000 dwt tankers. One of their assembly halls is about a Kilometer long.

There's also Japanese shipbuilder Tsuneisha Heavy Industries in Cebu. Singapore's Keppel also has shipyards in Cebu and Batangas.

I think marine/ocean engineering equipment industry should be given enough priority as well.

[manbil777]

Hollander-Scholtens from the Netherlands has formed a joint venture shipbuilding company with HighSpeed Navigation and Naval Engg. based in Fatullah, N-Ganj. HighSpeed is the third largest (after WMSL and Ananda) and by far the oldest (50 years) yard in Bangladesh.

Links that provide the project details and a brochure.

[manbil777]

There has been a recent large-scale initiative to build inland tankers of the 2200dwt GL class in Bangladesh. The designs are a bit dated but ideally suited to Bangladesh shallow i.e. low draught (draft) riverine navigable routes. The hulls are all double hull designs and conform to the latest EU marine safety and engineering standards.

Most importantly -- the design was locally developed by 'Marine House' and subcontracted to the larger local yards (Meghna, Khan brothers, FMC etc.)

Some are going to be built at WMSL and Ananda as well.

Some images from Meghna Yard.

[manbil777]

WMSL shipyard magazines are here and here .

Very slick and informative reads I must say.

[manbil777]

EMSWAVE (built by Western Marine Shipyard Limited (WMSL) Bangladesh) passing Portishead Point off the coast of Somerset, England. (Courtesy of Marinetraffic.com).

[everywhere]

Interesting updates from there.

[British-Bangladeshi]

Bangladesh turns from hulk-breaking to shipbuilding

Bangladesh, known worldwide as a place for breaking up old ships, is making a push to grab more of the global shipbuilding business, slashing corporate tax as an incentive for its more than 100 shipyards to expand.

The National Board of Revenue of Bangladesh has approved a 12-year tax rebate facility under which corporate tax is cut to 10% from 18.75% effective July 1. In the event of any shipbuilder becoming listed, it will have to pay only 5% corporate tax. The government hopes the move will help to create 1.5 million additional jobs and lead to as much as US$2 billion in export earnings by 2015.

Companies such as Western Marine Shipyard and Ananda Shipyard and Slipways are seeking to attract more buyers of small vessels as the world's leading shipbuilders in China and

South Korea increasingly focus on large vessels such as ever-bigger container carriers and specialized ships such as transporters of liquefied natural gas.

Bangladesh's 124 shipyards, with more than 100,000 skilled and 150,000 semi-skilled workers, can easily secure a substantial share of the global small shipbuilding market, according to a World Bank study published in March.

If the country can capture even 1% of the $167 billion global shipbuilding market, "exports will be worth $1.6 billion", the World Bank noted earlier this year. Total export orders can easily exceed a billion dollars within a year or two "if we succeed in maintaining our present momentum despite the worldwide economical turmoil", Mohammad Shahidul Bashar, public relations deputy manager at Western Marine, told Asia Times Online. The industry at present has orders to build 42 ships worth around $600 million, he said.

Export earnings from ships, boats and floating structures rose to $40.4 million in the 12 months to last June from $12.7 million in the year to June 2009, according to the Export Promotion Bureau. The latest tax incentive comes after a dip in exports to $9.3 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

The World Bank's "Bangladesh - Diagnostic Trade Integration Study" released in March said the sector accounted for 0.57% of the global market by 2008, up from 0.08% in 2006 and 0.35% in 2007.

The shipbuilding industry could become the country's third-largest foreign exchange earner in less than 10 years if the government provided support relating to bank guarantees and declares export-oriented shipyards as export-processing zones, the Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute says. The country's exports are dominated by textiles and ready-made garments, at around 70% of value.

The Association of Export-Oriented Shipbuilding Industries has for the past three years been urging the government to ease taxes to make the industry more competitive. Association president Abdullahel Bari, in a written proposal to the government, earlier forecast that global ship manufacturing capacity would rise to 10,000 vessels by 2015 from 7,500 at present and that "the traditional shipbuilders will come to new builders like Bangladesh in the coming years to meet the rising demand".

Present buyers of Bangladesh-made vessels come from as far afield as Europe and Africa. On March 21, German buyer Grona Shipping took possession of the last two of eight 5,200 deadweight tonnage (DWT) ice-class cargo vessels ordered from Western Marine. Each vessel was sold at $9.74 million.

Western Marine has also delivered six vessels to buyers from Denmark, Pakistan and Finland, said Bashar. "The shipyard has also built more than 60 ships including ferries, tankers, cargo vessels and dredgers for coastal and inland use in Bangladesh," he said.

Ananda Shipyard and Slipways (ASSL) in April handed over the $12 million Enzian, a 6,100 DWT multi-purpose ship, to German's Komrowski Maritim.

ASSL has also sold ocean-going vessels to buyers from Germany, Denmark and Mozambique. Other local shipbuilders winning international orders include Highspeed Shipbuilding, Dhaka Dockyard and Engineering Works, Khan Brothers Shipbuilding and Karnaphuli Shipyard.

Bangladesh is historically noted for its ship-breaking industry, which competes with India, China and Pakistan to be the world's largest, but it appears unlikely that the steel garnered from old hulks will make its way into new vessels destined for the world's oceans.

"Ships built for foreign buyers and even local owners comply with a set of standard guidelines set by the International Maritime Organization [IMO]," said Bashar of Western Marine. "Classification societies work under the IMO to monitor each new building project. Therefore all machinery and equipment used and installed in new building must be class approved. According to this, parts from expired ships are not permissible."

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury is the Editor of Xtra, the weekend magazine of New Age, in Bangladesh.

[manbil777]

Today I will portray some smaller shipyards around the region and some of their recent products. It will become clear that building PSVs (Oil-Platform Supply Vessels with capacity of 300 Dead Weight Tonnes and above), Diving support vessels and Bollard pull tugs present a better profit margin than building mini bulkers (mini ocean coasters) or mini tankers (usually with capacity under 10,000 Dead Weight Tonnes). This is ideal for Bangladeshi high quality yards like WMSL, Ananda, Khan Brothers and FMC.

The market for most of these vessels are either around Singapore or Dubai (two of the largest ports in the region) where large-ports and oil-exploration activity are centered.

PSV 'Greatship Ramya' Built by Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka



PSV Sea Turbot built by TEBMA Shipyards in conjunction with CSL (TEBMA situated in Udupi, Karnataka, India is now part of the larger Bharati Shipyard Group).



The following three are built by ABG shipyard in Surat, Gujarat, India

84M Diving Support Vessel – 'CCC Pioneer' with Heli-Deck for Consolidated Contractors International S.A. (Abu Dhabi –UAE)



60M Diving Support Vessel – 'Al Huwaila' for Halul Offshore Co. (Doha - Qatar)



Ocean-going 50M Multi-utility Vessel - 'Zamil' for Zamil Contracting Saudi Arabia

[manbil777]

Among maritime vessels - Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) and Inshore Patrol Vessel(IPV) demand is increasing worldwide due to increased pirate activity, illegal fishing, illegal immigration and most of all terrorist threats to ports and commercial shipping channels. In terms of size and tonnage, ships can be classified per the following list, from larger to smaller.

• Destroyer - 4000~9000 tons
• Frigate - 2000~4500 tons
• Corvette - 500~700 tons, sometimes upto 1200 tons
• Offshore and Inshore patrol vessel - 200~500 tons, such as the Aussie Armidale class boats
• Fast patrol craft - 50~250 tonnes, such as the Damen Stan boats.

Here is a modern fast patrol craft (very lightly armed), a Damen Stan 2606 design, also adapted for USCG as their 'Sentinel Class Cutter'.



IPVs, OPVs and fast attack craft are typically used by Coast Guards of respective countries. It is cost-prohibitive to patrol coastal waters for law enforcement duties with bigger boats than an OPV or a corvette. Navies get involved from Corvette level upwards.

Bangladeshi smaller shipyards are cost-competitive and are in a position to easily nab business from Coast Guard naval forces of many smaller countries for IPVs and OPVs. These countries sometimes do not have the luxury to source ships from first world shipyards (expensive for no reason) and also lack local resources to build them. Ergo -- their best bet is to source these smaller craft from places like Bangladesh. Bangladesh shipbuilding costs are cheaper than India or even Vietnam (definitely 15~20% less than China).

The Middle East and South American nations are potential gold-mines for export sales for smaller OPVs and IPVs. High Speed Attack Craft, Marine Police Interceptor boats and lightly armed High Speed Patrol Vessels made of aluminum are another area to be explored which typically use Water-Jets instead of conventional propellers. High Speed craft typically attain speeds of above 30 knots and are smaller/lighter.

Marketing teams in Bangladeshi yards should put together plans to tap these opportunities in local (Singapore and Dubai) maritime shows and also tie up with overseas German (Thyssen), Danish and Australian (Austal) marine-design houses to tap these lucrative opportunities. Most of all -- word should get out on what we have already done locally and what we are capable of.

Large shipyards in the region such as Colombo Dockyards in Sri Lanka, Karachi Shipyards and Engg. Works, Goa and Pipavav Shipyards in the Indian western coast all now specialize in building OPVs and IPVs. The Indian yards are also focusing on exports.

Needless to say -- Bangladeshi private yards don't have much experience exporting IPVs or OPVs. However they have built plenty of smaller riverine and inshore attack/patrol boats for the Bangladesh Coast Guard but nothing much bigger. Let's look at what (to my knowledge) has been built in this category locally and what we _could_ build for export. Watch this space for my next post...

[manbil777]

Here is a snippet about what our Navy's Khulna Shipyard has been up to. This was published in a defense article in New Delhi...

"Industrial Embrace
Khulna Shipyard signs a contract for five IPVand seven guided-missile corvetteswith CSOC
By Prasun K. Sengupta

Bangladesh’s state-owned Khulna Shipyard recently signed a contract with China’s Shanghai-based Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard and the China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Ltd (CSOC) for licence-building five inshore patrol vessels (IPV) and seven guided-missile corvettes. While the IPVs are based on the 80-tonne Huang Pu-class vessel, the guided-missile corvettes, to be built to a brand-new design, will each have a displacement of 260 tonnes, length of 46 metres, beamwidth of 7.4 metres, and have a top speed of 30 Knots.

While the CSOC will supply the first two guided-missile corvettes off-the-shelf, the remaining five will be licence-built by Khulna Shipyard. Each such vessel will be armed with up to four CPMIEC-built C-802A anti-ship cruise missiles.

The IPVs will each have a length of 27.5 metres, beamwidth of 5.5 metres, and a maximum speed of 18 Knots. On-board armaments will comprise twin 14.5mm machine guns. For navigational purposes, one I-band Type 347G mast-mounted radar will be installed on each IPV. The combat information centre (CIC) for the FFGs and guided-missile corvettes will be supplied by CETC International."

The aforementioned IPV's to be made by Khulna Ship Yard (KSY) are known as a group by the name of 'Khulna' class (CGS 'Khulna' to be the first Coast guard vessel)-- of which currently only one example exists, that China supplied to the Mauritania Navy.

Here's a picture.



The guided missile corvettes (more like 'mini corvettes' ) planned to be built at KSY under Chinese help will most probably be based on the craft being made in Karachi Ship Yard at present with Chinese help. (images are courtesy of and linked from 'Pakistan Military Review Forum')

Some pics,

[manbil777]

Some smaller coast guard vessels were designed and made locally.

Ananda Shipyard, a leading private shipyard of the country, built four Bangladesh Coast guard fast attack (patrol) boats in 2006 (about 28m OAL, 25 knots, P101~P104). The first two - CGS Porte Grande and CGS Shetgang - were built at a coast of Tk 17.5 crore. Shetgang is the Arabic pronunciation of Chittagong as well as origin of the name of the city where these boats are based. Before 2006 most CGS vessels came from China or Malaysia but after 2006 all were planned to be built locally. CGS has about 25 different Inland and coastal vessels of five different classes. CGS Porte Grande and CGS Shetgang are the successors to an 'Ruposhi Bangla' class inducted earlier in 2000 and built in Malaysia.

The pictures follow for CGS Porte Grande P102 and CGS Ruposhi Bangla P201 (for comparison). As seen, CGS Porte Grande (designed and built locally at Ananda) is a bit smaller but has more modern contours and a lower profile. These would be perfect for marketing as port-defense patrol vessels for export.

[manbil777]

Here is a link to recent models of armed ocean patrol vessels.

Link

[manbil777]

Interesting news from India's primary defense shipyard MDL (Mazagaon Docks Ltd.) in Mumbai in the last few hours.

Their order books now include six destroyers and maybe as many submarines of various types. With this massive order book - they have now no choice except taking in private yards as partners. One yard is Pipavav Shipyards (for surface naval ships) and the other is L&T (Larsen and Toubro).

http://www.business-standard.com/ind...sector/481163/

Which raises an interesting question. Why can't our local private yards pursue building profitable smaller littoral patrol ships for coast guards that may be too small for the Vietnamese or Indian yards? Defense ships of up to 2000 tons are in the littoral class and are termed corvettes or light frigates. These ships are ideal to be built in Bangladeshi yards. Frigates and Destroyers could be accommodated too -- but our private yards do not possess lengthy experience in the weapons and naval sensor fitment. Smaller challenges are better to take on.

The capability is surely there on the commercial side with building high quality ICE class Mini-bulkers and Mini-tankers of 7000 tonnes, which is mostly in line with the experience of an outfit like Pipavav Shipyard.

This is something reasonable to start with - given the nascent stage of shipbuilding experience we are in. However the demand for this class of ship from various national Coast Guards around the world is going to be very high for the next ten years as most coast guards are run using obsolete ships of about ten years or older vintage. In the next few posts - I will highlight the various modern designs of Littoral warship designs (corvette size and below) around the world.

[manbil777]

Let's look at some modern patrol boat/attack boat (US designation coast guard cutter) designs. These are small but fast response attack boats. Not much firepower but plenty of speed for reconnaissance, anti-piracy and fishing patrol duties. IMHO the Bangladesh Coast Guard should be looking at these designs to be built locally at WMSL or Ananda (say about five of them at each yard) instead of buying second-hand junk from China or Korea.

The first design is the newest boat designed by naval designer 'Damen Stan' (Holland), and the builder is Bollinger Shipyards in Louisiana. This is called the 'Sentinel-class' Fast Response Cutter (FRC). Image courtesy of the United States Coast Guard. The USCG modified the design by adding a stern boat launch system and also increased speed.

image hosted on flickr


PARAMETERS:
length: 154 feet, beam: 25 feet, draft: 9.6 feet, speed: 28+ knots
armament: one remotely controlled 25 mm chain gun autocannon and four 50-cal. machine guns
countermeasures: one short-range prosecutor rigid hull inflatable boat
displacement: 353 long tons, range: 2,950 nautical miles
main propulsion: two 4,300 kw (5,500 hp)mtu engines and one 75 kw (161 hp) bow thruster
Includes hydraulic stabilizer fins
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The second boat is the Australian 'Armidale Class' built by the famous builder AUSTAL (builder of the US Navy stealth LCS-1 boat USS Independence).



PARAMETERS:
Length: 56.8 m (~170 ft.)
Displacement: 270 tonnes
Hull: Semi-displacement vee, with Seastate active ride control system (hydraulic stabiliser fins and stern trim tabs).
Propulsion: Two MTU 16V M70 2320 kW diesels driving twin screws through ZF transmissions.

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The third boat is the 'Protector class' from New Zealand.



Displacement: 340 t (335 long tons) loaded
Length: 55 m (180 ft 5 in)
Beam: 9 m (29 ft 6 in)
Draught: 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Propulsion: 2 × MAN B&W 12VP185 engines rated at 2,500 kW at 1,907 rpm
ZF 7640 NR gearboxes, 2 controllable pitch propellers
Speed: Baseline speed 25 knots (46 km/h), Economical speed 12 knots (22 km/h), Loiter speed 4-7 knots
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km)
Complement: 20 (+2) Navy, 4 Govt. agency officers, 12 additional personnel
Armament: 3 × 12.75 mm machine guns, mounted forward and two either side of the funnel
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The fourth boat is the 'Gumdoksuri class' from S. Korea. This has more potent firepower because of their situation with N. Korea.




Displacement: 570 tonnes (561 long tons)
Length: 63 m (206 ft 8 in)
Beam: 9 m (29 ft 6 in)
Propulsion: CODAG, 2 x General Electric LM500 gas turbine, 2 x MTU 12V 595 TE90; Water jet propulsion
Speed: 41.5 knots (76.9 km/h; 47.8 mph)
Complement: 40
Sensors and processing systems:
• STX RadarSys SPS-100K surface search radar
• LIG Nex1 SPS-540K 3D surveillance radar
• Saab CEROS 200 fire control radar and optronic sight
• Samsung Thales electro-optical targeting system

Electronic warfare and decoys:
• 2 x KDAGAIE Mark 2 chaff/flare dispenser
• LIG Nex1 Sonata SLQ-200(V)K ECM/ECCM suite

Armament:
• Hyundai Wia 76mm gun
• Doosan DST 'No Bong' dual 40mm gun
• 4 x SSM-700K Hae Sung anti-ship cruise missile
• KP-SAM Shingung


(More to follow soon)...