MV ''Banglar Samriddhi'' is a

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bulk carrier built in 2018 which was struck by a missile in the Black Sea during the

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Description

The ''Banglar Samriddhi'' is an LR-class bulk carrier built by the Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilders in Jingjiang,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It has a beam of , is long, and has a draft of . Its gross tonnage is and it has a deadweight of 38,894 tons. In 2022 it was valuated at $21.5 million with a $6 million scrap value.

History

''Banglar Samriddhi'' was laid down in Jingjiang, China, and built by Jiansu New Yangzi Shipbuilding under the yard number 1237. The ship was completed on 18 September 2018 for the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation.

Missile strike incident

On 24 February 2022, the ''Banglar Samriddhi'' arrived in the port of Olvia in the Black Sea bearing no cargo. It was intended to load ball clay and then steam for Italy. However, when Russia launched its

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, the ''Banglar Samriddhi'' was stuck in port. On 1 March, the vessel was struck by a missile while still at anchor. One of its crew, third engineer Hadisur Rahman, was killed by the missile after it detonated on the bridge. The rest of the crew were unharmed and the fire on the ship was put out. Following the incident, the vessel was left in port and its surviving 28 crewmembers were evacuated to Bangladesh. Hadisur Rahman was a 29-year-old sailor from

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. He had three younger siblings. Rahman admitted the Chattogram Marine Academy after scoring GPA-5 in SSC and HSC. Afterwards he joined Banglar Samriddhi as an engineer in 2018. On the vessel he was the third engineer. Rahman was the sole breadwinner for the family. He planned to build a new house for his family upon his return. The body of Rahman was sent to Bangladesh and arrived in Dhaka via Romania and Turkey 3 March 2022. The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, which owns the ''Banglar Samriddhi'', announced that it would seek $22.4 million from its insurers, the Sadharan Bima Corporation and Tysers. The action represents the first marine insurance claim caused by the conflict in Ukraine. Following the evacuation of the ship's sailors, Bangladesh also announced that it was abandoning the ''Banglar Samriddhi'' in Ukraine, a move approved by Ukrainian maritime authorities.

References

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