At 12: 30 pm on November 23rd, a 66000DWT bulk carrier "MEGHNA VICTORY" (flying the Bangladeshflag) built by YAMIC for Bangladeshi shipowners untied its mooring ropes andset sail from the shipyard wharf. Shipowners' supervision team and shipyardrepresentatives gathered at the outfitting wharf to farewell to the maiden voyage.

The ship was successfully delivered by video conference at 11amon November 21st. "MEGHNA VICTORY" is the 13th ship delivered by YAMIC this year, with a total length of 199.99 meters and a model width of 36 meters,and it entered LR Classification Society. The ship started massivesteel-cutting on December 29th, 2021. Through the joint efforts of the shipowner's supervision team, the site office of the classification society andvarious lines of the shipyard, the ship overcame the epidemic situation and the influence of high temperature, and it took 11 months to deliver smoothly.

"MEGHNA VICTORY" is the first ship of a new generationof wide-body Ultramax ship type, which is independently researched and optimized by YAMIC on the basis of the design of Mitsui Shipbuilding "Neo66BC". This ship type is characterized by wide-body shallow draft, largerloading capacity, lower fuel consumption and better economy. As soon as theship design was launched, it was recognized by the market and shipowners, and now it has become another main series of ship types in the field of YAMIC bulk carrier products.