Colombo yard wins order for MPSV
04 Jan 2011
Sri Lankan shipbuilder Colombo Dockyard has won an optional contract to build a third multipurpose platform supply vessels (MPSV) for Greatship Global Offshore Services of Singapore, a subsidiary of Greatship (India) Limited (GIL).
The main contract for the construction of two 78m MPSVs, signed in October 2010, provided for Greatship Global Offshore Services (GGOSL) to exercise an option to construct two more vessels at the same price, which the yard did not disclose. The three MPSVs are scheduled for delivery in the first, second and third quarters of 2012.
Colombo Dockyard is currently building two 130 tonne bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessels for another Singaporean owner with deliveries scheduled for the second and third quarter of 2011. In addition, the shipbuilder is nearing completion of the fourth 78m MPPSV being built to comply with Indian flag state requirements, which is scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2011.
