HALUL 42

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L&T Shipbuilding delivers first PSV to Qatar company

L&T Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, on Friday delivered its first export commercial vessel, built at the Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai, to Halul Offshore Services Company WLL (HOSC) of Qatar. A statement from L&T said, the ship, Halul 42, is the first in a series of six platform supply vessels (PSVs) to be delivered to HOSC. Ali Bin Jassim Bin Mohammad Al-thani, chairman of HOSC, received the vessel at a ceremony at the Kattupalli Shipyard. The PSV has an overall length of 78.60 metres and a breadth of 18 metres with a dead-weight of 3,450 tonnes and a deck area of 725 sqmetres. It has been designed as a multi-purpose vessel equipped for fire-fighting, rescue and standby, offshore supply, oil recovery and other offshore related activities. The vessel has state-of-the-art diesel-electric propulsion with dynamic positioning capability. The vessel has twin azimuth thrusters and twin bow thrusters that give it high manoeuvrability and station-keeping ability in all sea and weather conditions, typically prevalent in Arabian Gulf and the North Sea.