Bangladesh Coast Guard receives four patrol vessels
Bangladeshi shipbuilder Dockyard & Engineering Works (DEW) in Narayanganj has delivered four large patrol vessels to the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG). The handover ceremony took place on 1 August at the shipyard owned by the Bangladesh Navy.
On the same day, the shipyard marked the keel laying of six high-speed boats also for the BCG.
Two patrol vessels – CGS Sonadia (P103) and Kutubdia (P104) are 43.4m fast patrol boats (FPB) – and two – CGS Shobuj Bangla (P202) and Shamol Bangla (P203) are 51.4m inshore patrol vessels (IPV).
These were all built to China Classification Society standards with technical
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