WMS, Ctg Dry Dock sign MoU on cooperation

CHITTAGONG, Jan 7: Western Marine Shipyard and the Chittagong Dry Dock signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Sunday for joint cooperation in the ship building and heavy engineering works.

Managing Director of Western Marine Shipyard Sakhawat Hossain and Managing Director of the Chittagong Dry Dock Ltd Commodore Md Nazmul Karim Kislu signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organisations at the office of the Chittagong Dry Dock at East Patenga.

Chittagong Dry Dock, a government enterprise for heavy steel engineering, ship repair and ship-building, was handed over to the Bangladesh Navy early last year.

Under the MoU, Chittagong Dry Dock and Western Marine Shipyard will assist each other in developing ship-building and heavy steel engineering capability, provide necessary technical support to each other and cooperate with each other in preparing tender documents to participate in national and international bidding.

Directors of the Western Marine Captain Sohail Hasan and Md Abdul Mobin and senior officials of the Chittagong Dry Dock were present on the occasion, a statement of the WMS said.

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