India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited has today delivered a Rolls Royce series of Platform Supply Vessel to Shipping Corporation of India.
The vessel is based on the UT 755 CD design of Rolls Royce.
“With the delivery of this high end, high performance vessel, Cochin Shipyard enters the league of select international yards capable of building such vessels,” said Cochin in a press release.
This 79 x 16 metre vessel is a high end Diesel Electric PSV with 4 Nos 994 KW Diesel gen.sets and 2 Nos 1470 KW Azimuth thrusters. The vessel with dynamic positioning (DP2) system, has been assigned the ‘CLEAN DESIGN’ notation by DNV signifying the highest levels of environmental compliance.
The next vessel in the series is expected to be delivered to SCI in September 2012.
[mappress] Offshore Energy Today Staff, August 14, 2012