Cochin Shipyard Limited delivers hi-tech vessel to Shipping Corporation of India

KOCHI: Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) on Tuesday delivered a Rolls-Royce series of platform supply vessel to Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), becoming the first shipyard worldwide to have built such a high-tech vessel.
The new vessel ‘SCI Nalanda’ is the first of the series of two high technology offshore vessels being built by CSL for SCI, each costing about $30 million. The second vessel would be delivered by next month, the CSL sources said.
The vessel has been awarded the ‘clean design’ notation from the global certifying agency DNV, signifying that it has the highest levels of environmental compliance, Captain V S M Nair, master designate of the vessel said.