Desh builds first container vessel in Bangladesh

“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.”

The above was reported in “the Financial Times” of Bangladesh on February 3, 2015.

We are proud to the entrepreneurs in Bangladesh who have spread their wings in different directions. Bangladesh Marine Academy alumni from 19^th batch Mr. Golam Sarwar of Prantik Group is one of these visionaries who is first in an idea that will take traction in South Asia. It proves Bangladesh can produce leaders with 20/20 vision.

Prantik Group was established in the year 1998 with Mrs. Halima Begum as its Chairman and Engr. Md. Golam Sarwar as its Managing Director. Mrs. Nasrin Sarwar Meghla is the HR Director of the Group. Initially it started its journey in the field of ship manning and repairing and with time it gradually increased its activities into other spheres – Ship building, Marine Salvage, Marine Engineering, Ship Survey, Testing and calibration Services, Diving Services, Coastal & Inland Transportations etc. Its mission is to be ‘Preferred Provider of The Maritime Services in Bangladesh’ with a vision to do ‘Business for Sustainable Development’ in the areas it is engaged.

It has already achieved wide spread reputation in maritime sector in home and abroad.

As it grew it became essential to form separate companies and enterprise dealing in specific sectors.

The following companies and enterprises were established with the necessity of time and activities which we call sister concerns: