Contic Cruises

Contic is a Bangladesh-based river tourism operator that offers services in and around Dhaka. They also offer a cruise in the south to the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and home of the royal Bengal tiger. Contic is an abbreviation of "confluence of technologies, ideas and cultures."
Aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand featured Contic's sailboat, the B613, in the Bangladesh episode of his documentary series, Earth from Above (French: Vue du Ciel)
History
The company was founded in 1997 by Yves Marre and Runa Khan. Contic aims to help preserve the area's heritage. To secure the knowledge of carpenters in this region of the world, Contic, in association with Friendship, a charity organisation also based in Bangladesh, opened a boat museum and published a related book. Both Contic and Friendship are attempting to document and preserve as much as possible of a boat-building tradition that is rapidly dying through the creation of model boats, exhibitions and active involvement with naval architects such as Marc Van Peteghem and Thibault Saint-Olive.

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