Desh builds first container vessel in Bangladesh

CHITTAGONG, Feb 3: Desh Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd has built the first container vessel in Bangladesh that will facilitate inland and coastal trade.
MV Rodella is the first container vessel built by any local shipyard for facilitating trading in Chittagong, Mongla, Pangaon and east coast Indian and Myanmar ports, a statement of the Prantik Group has said.
The vessel is a double skin, double-hull vessel with tank-top strength and can carry either bulk or break bulk or containers, very suitable for heavy cargo such as project cargo, steel billets, steel coils and steel plates.
Before starting to ply in February as coastal vessel the MV Rodella has already started operation with lighterage cargo, steel billets and coal from December 2014.
The vessel with 80 metres in length and 15 metres in breadth has the container capacity of 128 TEUs (twenty feet equivalent unit) with 10 reefer points and was built on November 30, 2014.
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