Colombo Dockyard delivers Platform/ROV Support Vessel Greatship Rashi

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Colombo Dockyard recently delivered another Platform/ROV Support Vessel Greatship Rashi to Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), a subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited.

This is the fourth in the series and she will join her sister vessel Greatship Rohini which was delivered in February 2011.

Greatship Rashi is a state of the art, 78m Platform/ROV Support Vessel and is the 218th new ship that Colombo Dockyard has built and the 12th large and highly complex vessel that has built and delivered, since it internationalised its shipbuilding activities in 2006.

Mangala Yapa (MD/CEO, CDPLC) and Kartik Modi (GIL) exchanging protocols of delivery in the presence of A. Nakauchi (Chairman, CDPLC), J. Gunadheera (GIL) and Divya Wadhawan (GIL)

Greatship Rashi is a Class II DP vessel and has been built complying with the new SPS Code 2008 and Environmental Protection & Crew Comfort notations of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, capable of supporting offshore exploration and production activities.

Greatship Rashi is specially fitted out for supporting two Work Class ROVs, 35 ton deep sea winch and A frame and 10 UT offshore crane.

Colombo Dockyard recently secured three more Platform/ROV Support Vessel order from Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte Ltd in Singapore with delivery times extending up to end September 2012.

Colombo Dockyard is one of Sri Lanka’s largest foreign exchange earners, contributing nearly 2% of Sri Lanka’s total export revenue, whilst providing employment to over 3,000 Sri Lankans. Having committed to the development and sustenance of skills, competencies and technical know-how of hundreds of local engineers and craftsmen, the company today is able to meet the emerging needs in the modern shipbuilding and ship repair industries, meeting stringent requirements of classification societies, owners and flag authorities.

Colombo Dockyard is a blue chip company and is one of the two Sri Lankan companies to be listed in the September 2010 Forbes Financial Magazine, under the ‘Asia’s 200 Best Under A Billion’ category. The Company was also adjudged to be amongst the Top Twenty business entities in Sri Lanka and ranked sixth position in Business Today’s Top 20 awards for performance in year 2009/10. In addition, it has being well recognised by the National Chamber of Exports as the Exporter of the Year for years 2007/8 and 2008/9 and as the Most Value Added Exporter in year 2009/10.

Colombo Dockyard is an enviable proof to Sri Lankan Shipbuilding and engineering capabilities and the company is in pursuit of promoting its globalisation theme “Made in Sri Lanka: from here to the World”.