State-owned autonomous agency Bangladesh Shipping Corporation will add 20 more ships, including bulk containers and container carriers, to its existing 8-vessel fleet by 2030, Shipping Secretary Md Mostafa Kamal disclosed.
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation started its journey with only two ships in 1972 and the number of ships steadily increased to 44 in the 1980s. However, the corporation sold most of the ships for their damages in the 1990s. It owned only two ships until 2018 before the inclusion of six new vessels.
Currently, it has eight ocean-going ships in total. One of them got damaged in the Olvia port by a missile attack amid the Russia-Ukraine war this year.
