Khulna Shipyard


Khulna Shipyard Limited is a ship construction and repair yard at Khulna, Bangladesh owned by the Government of Bangladesh under Ministry of Defence and managed by the Bangladesh Navy. It constructs Padma-class offshore patrol vessels for the Bangladesh Navy. It has built five patrol-vessels of this class for Bangladesh Navy and two container ships. Two Durjoy-class anti-submarine warfare large patrol-crafts were built for Bangladesh navy in this shipyard.

History

The shipyard was founded in 1957. On 3 October 1999 the shipyard with a 993.7 million taka debt was handed over to Bangladesh Navy. In 2008 all debt had been cleared and since then has been making profit. The Maldives had expressed interest in procuring patrol craft for its Coast Guard.

Naval projects