 There are four prerequisites that any country must fulfill before emerging as a shipbuilding country producing ocean-going vessels: International standard shipbuilding practice, quality management system, coastline and riverine landscape and infrastructure including manpower resources. Bangladesh has already covered all these avenues along its eventful shipbuilding history.
Bangladesh, through the course of time, has gained a comprehensive experience of building fine vessels in answer to her communication and transportation needs.
From wood to steel, and from single-deck to multi-deck vessels, the country’s Shipbuilding Industry has developed over time and so has the labor force’s mastery of the craft. Today, There are over two thousand 500 tonne–to-2000-tonne capacity cargo-ships and 220 tonne-to-1000 tonne capacity passenger vessels, all made in Bangladesh cruising its rivers.
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 Khulna Shipyard produced six thousand and fifty vessels in its glory days, and is still in operation under the management of Bangladesh Navy.
As air transport continues to be highly expensive and since major shipbuilding countries like South Korea, China, Vietnam and Singapore are showing less interest in building small ocean going vessels, European buyers are now showing interest towards newer yet experienced sources, and Bangladesh is definitely one of these sources which can claim preference.
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