Seatrium Ltd.’s U.S. unit, Seatrium Letourneau USA Inc. (SLET), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cochin Shipyard (CSL) to collaborate on the design and provide of vital tools for jack-up rigs for the Indian market.
Seatrium mentioned in a media launch that the companions goal to capitalize on the alternatives for Cell Offshore Drilling Items (MODUs). The pair will leverage CSL’s ship building expertise and engineering and SLET’s technical experience and design capabilities to design MODUs particularly to fulfill the calls for of the Indian market.
For Seatrium, this collaboration with CSL represents a milestone because it appears to advance options for India’s offshore vitality business.
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State-backed CSL is pioneering high-tech, inexperienced shipbuilding in India. Over current years India’s shipyards have collected shipbuilding know-how and expertise with a concerted effort by the federal government, in accordance with international assurance and danger administration firm DNV. DNV mentioned 50 p.c of CSL’s present order e book consists of inexperienced vessels. All of its vessels are designed underneath DNV classification.
“DNV has been an necessary accomplice to us for practically 21 years”, Madhu Nair, Chairman and Managing Director at CSL, mentioned. “The connection developed together with the shipyard and was instrumental in linking us with the Norwegian maritime cluster, which has additionally helped our efforts to construct up extra capability within the tools phase. There’s a DNV workplace at our yard, and having the ability to depend on DNV-assured expertise has been an important benefit. Because the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Design in India’ authorities initiatives to develop our home provide chain collect tempo, we need to use increasingly DNV-certified merchandise made in India”.
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