Colombo Dockyard delivers ‘Greatship Ragini’

Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) delivered the last vessel of a series of three platform/ROV Support Vessels (ROVSV) for Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte Limited of Singapore, at the auspicious time of 11:25 a.m. on 10 January 2013.

This is the 11th Offshore Support Vessel built by Colombo Dockyard to Greatship, which demonstrates the trust and confidence the client has placed on the shipyard to deliver quality vessels.

The signing of the Protocol of Delivery was done by V. K. Chandrasekaran (General Manager New Building Offshore Logistics) and Mangala P.B. Yapa (MD/CEO, CDPLC) witnessed by Divya Wadhawan, Apurva Barbhaya, Frank Peter Dias (all from GGOSL) and Jeewaka Gunadheera (GGOSL Project Manager at Shipyard).

Also in attendance were Classification Society Surveyor Sirinath Herat representing the Lloyds Register and D.V.D. Prasadrao representing the Indian Register of Shipping.  

Akihiko Nakauchi (Chairman, CDPLC), Y. Kijima (Director), N. Nishida (Alt. Director), senior managers and special projects managers participated at the event.

Sending a special message to the ceremony, P.R. Naware (Executive Director, GGOSL) said: “Please accept our sense of appreciation for achieving delivery of the 11th vessel. I must say that the yard has continuously strived to improve upon the quality of the vessels delivered to us and I am sure this last round of vessels will serve our fleet with distinction. You can count on us as one of your satisfied customers and hope that going forward we will have more opportunities to work together in Vessel new buildings or repairs.”

CDPLC is indeed privileged to be considered as the preferred shipbuilder of Greatship Group which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited. With the delivery of Greatship Ragini, the Group currently owns and operates four PSVs, nine AHTSVs, two MPSSVs, six ROVSVs and two Jackup Rigs and have one 350 feet jack up rig under construction.

This vessel designed by Seatech Solutions International (S) Ltd. of Singapore is a DP2 classed vessel capable of supporting offshore exploration and production and complies with SPS Code 2008 Clean Design requirements. With the wealth of experience gathered in building vessels for the offshore sector, CDPLC is well experienced and geared to meet all requirements arising in the offshore oil exploration activities being carried out in the Sri Lankan waters and offer its expertise.