Bira Shipyard is a yard-side desk on the Tanjung Bira foreshore, published and maintained by the Bira Shipyard Build Desk. It plans, supervises and documents timber-hull work: haul-outs, refits, repairs, surveys and supervised new builds. It does not own a slipway, sell vessels or operate charters, and it does not claim credentials it cannot evidence.
Why this desk exists
The coast around Bira, in Bulukumba Regency, has built timber vessels for centuries. The craft knowledge here is real and it is still a living trade — not a museum exercise. What has never developed alongside it is the administrative layer that international owners take for granted: written specifications, material acceptance criteria, dated progress evidence, change control, and payment released against verified milestones.
That gap produces a predictable pattern. The workmanship is good; the project goes badly. Timelines slip without anyone being able to say when or why. A hull is opened, more work is found, and there is no agreed mechanism for deciding what happens next. Owners at a distance lose visibility entirely. The Build Desk exists to close that gap without interfering in the craft itself.
How the desk works
Write it down
Scope, milestones, acceptance criteria and change routes are written before the hull comes up the beach.
Photograph everything
Structure that will be hidden for thirty years is recorded while it is open, from consistent positions, with dates.
Price after opening
Firm numbers follow inspection. A confident figure quoted before a timber hull is opened is a guess with a signature on it.
Editorial standard
Everything published on this site follows a small set of rules, and they are worth stating openly because the marine industry is not always careful about them:
- Articles and pages carry a brand desk byline. No invented author personas, no fabricated biographies, no credentials attached to names that do not exist.
- No memberships, licences, awards, accreditations or press mentions are claimed anywhere on this site. If a claim is not evidenced, it is not made.
- No customer ratings, star scores or testimonials are displayed. Where a job is described, it is described as a type of work, not as a review.
- Prices are quoted in USD, after survey. No price lists are published for work whose scope depends on what an opened hull reveals.
- Where something is judgement rather than fact — and on timber hulls a great deal is — it is written as judgement.
On the limits of what we know
Conditions on a working foreshore change: ground, ways, labour availability and timber supply are not fixed. Guidance here describes how work is planned and what generally governs it. Specific commitments about a specific vessel are made only after the vessel’s data has been assessed.
Contracts and entities
The commercial structure is kept deliberately explicit, because vagueness about who is contracting with whom causes problems later:
| Work type | Contracting entity |
|---|---|
| Construction, repair, refit, vessel sale | PT Komodo Galangan Nusantara |
| Technical and commercial vessel management | PT Komodo Vessel Management |
| Brokerage, central agency, charter marketing | PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara |
Separate contracts, separate fees, separate ledgers. Bira Shipyard itself is a specialist maritime brand under Juara Holding Group — a trading identity for the yard desk, not a separately incorporated company.
Regional context
Bira does not exist in isolation. Owners frequently compare this foreshore with other yards in the archipelago, and the honest answer is that the right yard depends on the job: timber craft and traditional construction are exceptionally well served here, while some steel, aluminium and heavy mechanical work is better placed elsewhere. That comparison is set out plainly in the Bira yard guide, alongside a candid list of the work that belongs somewhere else entirely.
Contact the Build Desk
Enquiries go to a working desk, not a call centre. Send vessel data and what you are trying to achieve, and you will get a straight answer about whether Bira is the right place for it.
- WhatsApp: +628113823875
- Email: sales@komodoluxury.com
- Quotations: issued in USD after a written scope and a hull inspection.