OHSAS 18001 for health & safety & ISO 14001 for environment. They also received the ISO 9001 certificate from Germanischer Lloyd for quality. This has made them the only IMS (Integrated Management System) certified company in Bangladesh. Furthermore, WMS has received a number of awards; including the 2016 Bangladeshi President's Award for Industrial Development (in the Hi-Tech industries category), the 8th HSBC Export Excellence Award, the Gold National Export Trophy for the 2010-2011 financial year, and the World Maritime Day Award in 2007. Projects Western Marine Shipyard exported 31 ships to various countries of the world (Finland, Germany, Pakistan, Denmark, Tanzania, Uganda, Ecuador, New Zealand, Gambia, Kenya, India, UAE, etc.) and brought around US$151 Million of remittance. The yard has built more than 60 ships which includes ocean going multi purpose cargo vessels, passenger vessels & boats, oil tankers, ro-ro ferries, pontoons, barges, fishing trawlers, dredgers, tug boats, container vessels, and more, with further plans to export more than $250 million worth of ships. Western Marine operates in conjunction with classification societies through the entire building and testing process of new vessels. The yard has worked with Bureau Veritas, DNV-GL, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK), and Lloyd's Register to insure class built ships for their buyers. In 2017, the Finance Minister of Bangladesh, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, identified WMS as one of the top twenty loan defaulters in the country. However, the shipyard has rescheduled its defaulted loans with two banks and has started to repay installments regularly. See also Shipbuilding in Bangladesh References External links Shipbuilding companies of Bangladesh Shipyards of Bangladesh Manufacturing companies based in Chittagong Karnaphuli River