• Handover of Stella Moon

    The country's one of the leading shipbuilding companies, Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd, on Saturday handed over an oceangoing ship...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ananda Builders, an engineering firm, established a shipbuilding yard on the Buriganga River in 1983. With growing volume of business the yard was shifted in 1985 to its present location on the river Meghna, an hour's drive from the capital city Dhaka.

Ananda Builders Ltd. modernized and systemized its operations by enhancing facilities and segregating shipbuilding activities under a separate banner, ANANDA SHIPYARD & SLIPWAYS LTD. (ASSL), a family owned company limited by shares incorporated in 1999 drawing in first and second generation members.

ASSL, now the largest shipyard in the private sector in Bangladesh and is the flagship in Ananda Group of nine companies & industries.

Production area of ASSL is 80,000 sq. meter of which 20,000 sq. meter is covered. Shipbuilding halls are fitted with EOTs and Slipways are aided by a Gantry cranes. A workforce of more than 1100 in various sections led by 96 qualified managers, executives and engineers produce reasonably modern quality vessels. The inhouse computer aided design office provides designs/drawings to the shipyard. Yard's annual production capacity is about 30,000 tonnes in terms of consumed steel and turnover per year is US$ 14.00 million.

The quality of the works has been certified by reputed classification societies & inspection agencies. In terms of equipment, manpower & experience the shipyard now ranks among the top shipyards in South Asia.