The Shipping Corporation of India received a high end diesel electric Platform Supply Vessel, ‘SCI Yamuna’ from the Cochin Shipyard (CSL).
This is said to be the second and the last of the series of high tech Rolls Royce series of Platform Supply Vessel. SCI said that the earlier ships of the series delivered by CSL were performing exceedingly well and good reports have been received from the end user regarding its quality and performance.
The latest vessel 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.
This 79 x 16 metre vessel has four 994 kw diesel generator sets and two 1470 kw Azimuth thrusters.
The vessel with redundant dynamic positioning (DP2) system features has been assigned the ‘CLEAN DESIGN’ notation by DNV signifying the highest levels of environmental compliance.
Arun Kumar Gupta, Director (Technical & Offshore Services) of SCI signed the protocol documents of the ship with Capt RS Sundar, Director (Operations).
K Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of CSL, Ravikumar Roddam, Director (Finance), and P Vinayakumar, Director (Technical) and other senior officials were present. This is said to be the 10th ship being taken over by SCI from CSL.
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