L&T Shipbuilding near Chennai delivers first vessel

Company invested Rs 4,000 crore in port-cum-ship building project developed jointly with TIDCO

L&T Shipbuilding has delivered its first export commercial vessel from the Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai.

Halul 42 is the first in a series of six platform supply vessels (PSVs) to be delivered to Qatar-based Halul Offshore Services Company WLL (HOSC).

The ship has been received by Ali Bin Jassim Bin Mohammad Al-thani, chairman of HOSC, at a ceremony at the Kattupalli Shipyard.

The PSV has an overall length of 78.60-metres with a dead-weight of 3,450 tonnes and a deck area of 725 sq metres.

The vessel has been designed as a multi-purpose vessel equipped for fire-fighting, rescue and standby, offshore supply, oil recovery and other offshore related activities.

Its twin azimuth thrusters and twin bow thrusters that gives it high manoeuvrability and station-keeping ability in all sea and weather conditions, typically prevalent in Arabian Gulf and the North Sea.

The vessel complies with the latest marine, environmental and crew accommodation regulations. The external fire-fighting capability, survivor facilities and fast rescue boats make Halul 42 capable of enhancing the safety of any offshore field where the vessel is deployed. The ship is certified for carriage of noxious cargo and dangerous goods in packaged form.

L&T is a $14.3-billion technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services company with global operations.

L&T’s around Rs 4,000 crore port-cum-ship building project was set up jointly by L&T and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco) in two phases on a 1,200-acre of land at Kattupalli, which 35-40 kilometers from Chennai, through L&T Shipbuilding Limited.