Western Marine Shipyard Limited is a public listed shipbuilding company based in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The shipyard has constructed various types of vessels till date, including ocean going multi purpose cargo vessels, passenger vessels & boats, oil tankers, ro-ro ferry, pontoons, barges, fishing trawlers, dredgers, tug boats, container vessels, etc. Western Marine Shipyard is the country's largest shipbuilder, standing with over 42 acres of land, modernized into a shipyard consisting of all sorts of tech & heavy machinery. Sitting in the Eastern Bank of the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong, it is an employment source for 3500 people; including skilled and semi skilled labors. More than five hundred marine professionals are also working in the shipyard. Including marine experts, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, naval architects & experts in other fields. As a result of that, today, they are constructing vessels for buyers around the world [see Projects] and owns 89 percent of Bangladesh's shipbuilding market. History The mother company, Western Marine Services, was initially formed by a group of marine professionals specialized in ship repairing and the export of marine supplies. Gradually the company developed as a shipbuilder with its own shipyard, in the year 2000; with over 1.5 acres of land for building inland vessels. Today Western Marine Shipyard is one of the biggest shipbuilders in the country, standing with over 42 acres of land, modernized into a shipyard consisting of all sorts of tech & heavy machinery. Sitting in the Eastern Bank of the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong, it is an employment source for 3500 people; including skilled and semi skilled labors. More than five hundred marine professionals are also working in the shipyard. Including marine experts, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, naval architects & experts in other fields. Today, being Bangladesh's largest shipyard, it owns 89 percent of the countries shipbuilding market and has exported most than 31 vessels to over 12 countries around the world. The yard also has signed a MoU with the Chittagong Dry Dock in order to aid the CDD with developing heavy steel engineering capabilities and provide them necessary technical support. Additionally, Western Marine is constructing 20 class certified cargo vessels for local company Evergreen Shipping Line; this deal is considered to be Bangladesh's largest ship order contract in terms of quantity of ships. On 16 June 2019, Captain Sohail Hasan took over as Managing Director (MD) of the company, as was decided by the