Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) delivers the second of two Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) to Shipping Corporation of India.
The high tech Rolls Royce PSV SCI Yamuna is dual classed under the Rules and Regulations of IRS Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) and registered under the Indian flag with Mumbai as the homeport, reports 'The Hindu'.
This 79 x 16 metre vessel is a high-end diesel electric platform supply vessel with four 994 KW diesel generator sets and two 1470 KW Azimuth thrusters.
The vessel has redundant dynamic positioning (DP2) system features, and has been assigned the ‘Clean Design’ notation by DNV signifying the highest levels of environmental compliance.
K Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of CSL, Ravikumar Roddam, Director (Finance), and P Vinayakumar, Director (Technical) and other senior officials were present.
While accepting the vessel, Gupta, Director, SCI, said earlier ships of the series delivered by CSL were performing exceedingly well and good reports have been received from the end user regarding quality and performance.