Chittagong, Bangladesh (BBN)– Western Marine Shipyard Limited (WMSL) has inaugurated the construction work of one 134 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) container vessel by laying a keel in its shipyard at Patiya upazila (sub-district) of the district. 
This is the first time the company will build a container ship for the inland route and the ship will be constructed under German class Germanischer Lloyd (GL). 
To this effect, Western Marine signed an agreement with GL for classification of the ship in the shipbuilding exhibition ‘SMM 2012’ in Hamburg, Germany on September 6 last.
 
BBN/SSR/AD-21Sept12-10:07 am (BST)