The ship is equal to three football fields in size. Longer in length, one third of a kilometer, one-third. The length of an 89 storey tall building is the same as that of its length. Such a monster-shaped ship is now in the watershed of Bangladesh.
There is no scope for such a big ship to come up with the products in Bangladesh. If the product is loaded, the bottom of the water will be 22 meters. There is no such depth in the waters of the port of Chittagong, ie, in the Bay of Bengal. Despite not having the product, its bottom of the water is now 8.2 meters long. Why this ship in Bangladesh? Since the ship did not come with the product, but what was brought to show? Not all questions answered. Actually the ship has been brought to the dismantling. It will be broken and SN Corporation (Unit-3) Yard on the coast of Sitakunda
The name of the ship 'MT Hegaiya' Once the ship was used for transporting goods. The transportation capacity of its goods is 3 lakh 10 thousand 513 tonnes. This vessel is 334 484 meters in length and 58 mm in width is 8 meters. More than that, another small ship was brought in last month. The big ships that were brought earlier to break down the coast of Sitakund were at the highest level of 333 meters. That's why MT Hegaiya is the biggest ship to come to Bangladesh in the past decade.
Comparing the size of the ship to the football field, an idea can be found. The football field has a minimum area of 6,400 square meters and maximum 8 thousand 250 square meters. However, in the World Cup in Russia, the size of each football field was 7,140 meters, which set the International Football Federation or FIFA as the standard field area. The size of the deck pattern of the MT Hegaiya ship is 19,426 square meters. Comparing the minimum or standard football field size, the size of this vessel is approximately equal to three football fields.
The size of the ship, how long the ship will be? It is also found that compared to the high-rise building. The ship is the tallest building in Bangladesh, which is about twice the size of this city center. The 171 meter tall 37-storey building is located in Dhaka. Three-and-a-half-times shipments of the World Trade Center (WTC) building of the 24-storey building in Agrabad, Chittagong.
This ship was owned by the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company. Being old, they sold the ship. The 20-year-old ship is the last address of the ship is now Chittagong. Sitakunda's SN Corporation bought the shipyard from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Kadri Ship Recyclers Limited. After purchasing the name of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the name of Kuwait, Al-Shigaaa was changed to name 'MT Hegaya'.The cost of the ship is $ 14 million, which is equivalent to about 150 million dollars in Bangladesh. To build such a big ship, the cost will be 650 to 700 crores.
Captain Anam Chowdhury, adviser to the Ship Breaking Association, took the ship to the final address on the coast of Sitakunda from the water port of Chittagong port. Asked on Thursday, he said in the first light on Thursday that the vessel was lifted on Wednesday on the coast of Sitakund for the convenience of breaking it. It takes at least 15 minutes to walk from one end of the big ship to another. At least six months of breaking. In 2010, it took a year to break the world's largest ship 'Nak Nevis' in the ship-breaking yard of India.
It is known that the ship has 31 types of products. It can be broken up to 42 thousand 441 tons of iron. Rod will be made using iron pieces or plates. The rod that can be found using iron of this vessel, can be found in 12 buildings like Chittagong's 24-storey World Trade Center..
