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Business Upturn
28-06-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Cochin Shipyard secures order for two 70 T Bollard Pull Tugs from Polestar Maritime
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), one of India's premier shipbuilders, has recently informed exchanges that the company secured a fresh order from Polestar Maritime Limited for the construction of two powerful 70-ton Bollard Pull Tugs. These vessels are expected to be delivered in May 2027 and September 2027, respectively. This new order comes on top of three similar tugs already under construction by Udupi Cochin Shipyard Limited (Udupi-CSL), a wholly owned CSL subsidiary. Polestar Maritime, a well-known name in harbour tug services and marine assistance across ports, is expanding its fleet with high-performance, India-built vessels. The tugs will be built based on designs by Robert Allan Ltd., a global leader in tugboat design. Both CSL and Udupi-CSL are playing a key role in bringing these advanced tug designs to India under the Government of India's Approved Standard Tug Design and Specifications (ASTDS) framework—part of the broader 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat' initiative to boost local manufacturing. The vessels will be jointly constructed at CSL's Cochin yard under a work-share model with Udupi-CSL. Each tug will be powered by twin 1838 kW engines and 2.7-meter propellers supplied by Niigata IHI Power Systems, Japan. With four tugs already delivered and 20 more—18 regular and 2 green tugs—in the pipeline, CSL continues to make steady progress in strengthening India's shipbuilding capabilities. Ahmedabad Plane Crash Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
New Indian Express
25-04-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Cochin Shipyard Ltd delivers first of six cargo vessels to Norwegian firm
KOCHI: The Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) delivered the first vessel in a series of six 3,800 dead weight tonnage (DWT) dry cargo vessels to Norway's Wilson Ship Management AS, the largest short sea shipping company in Europe on Thursday. The vessel, christened Wilson Eco 1 Project, was built at the Udupi unit of the CSL and the vessel was handed over to the Norwegian firm at a function held at the New Mangalore Port. Chief financial officer of Wilson Ship Management AS, Einar Torsnes, New Build superintendent Sergey Bogdashov and the Wilson's site team were present at the occasion. Wilson Ship Management AS, headquartered in Bergen, is the largest short sea fleet in Europe. Every year they transport about 15 million tonnes of dry cargo across Europe. Wilson Ship Management has a fleet of around 130 vessels ranging from 1,500 to 8,500 DWT, all of similar design with a core objective to carry any cargo at any time. Subsequent to the start of production of the 3,800 series vessels, Wilson Ship Management has signed a further order for construction of eight 6,300 DWT general cargo vessels with Udupi-CSL at a total cost of Rs 1,041 crore. Udupi-CSL, formerly known as Tebma Shipyards Limited, was taken over by CSL in 2020 through an order of the National Company Law Tribunal and started operations in 2021. In the last three years, the shipyard has constructed and delivered eight aluminium hulls for the Kochi Water Metro Project, eight tuna long liner-cum-gill netters, two 62 T Bollard Pull Tugs for Ocean Sparkle Limited and two 70T Bollard Pull Tugs to Polestar Maritime Limited.
