Protest ship Rainbow Warrior 11 of the international environment watchdog Greenpeace, given to a Bangladesh charity, arrives at the Chittagong port on Monday morning, port officials said.
Non-governmental organization Friendship is ready to receive the vessel after it anchors at the marine jetty of the port at 6:00 am on Monday, they added. Frienship renamed the vessel as Rangdhanu, which means rainbow, they said.
A Friendship official told New Age that the ship had been handed over in Singapore and it would be used as a floating hospital along the Bangladesh coast to provide the poor with medical services.
Greenpeace earlier used the ship in its protest against whaling and nuclear testing, he said.
The ship was given to Friendship free, he added. The ship can also cater to the need of the coastal people during any natural disasters, he said.
Source : New Age
