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CSL delivers platform supply vessel

KOCHI: Cochin Shipyard Ltd. (CSL) delivered the fourth of the series of eight platform supply vessels that it is building for Deep Sea Supply, Norway, on Thursday.

The vessel was delivered on schedule, the protocol for delivery and acceptance of the vessel being signed by Annfinn Folsland from Deep Sea Supply and C.K. Thomas, Executive Director of CSL. The shipyard has orders for 12 more platform supply ships for various foreign owners.

M. Jitendran, chairman and managing director, CSL, senior officials and the owner’s representatives were present on the occasion. The vessel delivered on Thursday is built on the lines of the UT- 755-L design. It is built for satisfying the specific demands of the offshore industry for transport of deck cargo, pipes, liquid cargo, cement and unloading to rigs and production platforms and pipe-laying barges.

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