Cochin Shipyard Limited delivers its third anchor handling tug supply vessel

07 Aug 2012

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) delivered a 120T Bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS), “SCI Ahimsa”, at a glittering ceremony this morning to the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, Mumbai (SCI). This is the third of the series of 4 Nos of 120T Bollard pull AHTS being built by CSL for SCI. The Protocol documents of the ship were signed by Shri P Vinayakumar, Director (Technical) on behalf of Cochin Shipyard and Capt K Devadas, Senior Vice President (Technical & Offshore Services) on behalf of SCI, in the presence of Cmde K Subramaniam, CMD, Shri Ravikumar Roddam, Director (Finance), Capt R S Sundar, Director (Operations) and other senior officials from CSL and SCI.

The vessel is of AH03 type, designed by STX OSV, Norway (ex- Aker Yards) and is certified under dual class by the Rules and Regulations of American Bureau of Shipping & Indian Register of Shipping. This ship is registered under Indian flag with Mumbai as the home port. This 65.2 x 16.0 Meter vessel is a high end AHTS equipped with Rolls Royce Brattvaag Waterfall type Anchor handling cum towing winch with a tested bollard pull of 120 T Capacity. The vessel is also equipped with 2 Nos of 4000 KW Diesel Engines and 2 Nos of Controlled pitch propeller in Kort Nozzles. The vessel has Grade I Dynamic Positioning feature along with compliance to ERRV class ‘C’, which allows the vessel to work as an emergency rescue and recovery vessel in case of an oil field exigency and also has the capability of Fire Fighting class I. The vessel has accommodation facility for 29 persons with all the capabilities of a Platform Supply Vessel in addition to that of Anchor Handling Tug. This type of vessels are being used as support vessels for various rig move/ anchor handling and other offshore supply functions.

The shipyard is presently constructing another 3 nos of offshore vessels for SCI.

Cochin Shipyard Limited press release