Western Marine Shipyard Limited is a publicly listed shipbuilding company standing with over 42 acres of land beside the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram, Bangladesh.
[7] 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.
[12] The following are some of the shipyard's facilities:[12] In conjunction with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Western Marine set itself to analyze the risks and hazards their workers faced.
[18] 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.
The yard has worked with Bureau Veritas, DNV-GL, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK),[3] and Lloyd's Register[20] to insure class built ships for their buyers.
[33] In 2021, Bank Asia initiated legal proceedings against Western Marine Shipyard Limited in an effort to recoup a classified loan totalling Tk505.90 crore.