7 months ago
2
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) volition motorboat an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Shallow Water Craft, a hybrid electrical methanol-ready Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV), and a trailer suction hopper dredger connected Saturday (October 18, 2025).
The ASW Shallow Water Craft, to beryllium commissioned arsenic INS Magdala for the Indian Navy, is the sixth vas successful a bid being built nether a declaration for 8 vessels signed successful April 2019. Designed and built indigenously, the 78-metre-long, 896-tonne trade is susceptible of achieving speeds of up to 25 knots. It is equipped with precocious underwater sensors, lightweight torpedoes, ASW rockets, and mine-laying capability. The vas tin besides behaviour low-intensity maritime operations, coordinated ASW missions with aircraft, and hunt and rescue operations successful coastal waters, CSL said successful a release.
The ASW Shallow Water Craft people volition regenerate the Indian Navy’s Abhay-class corvettes, importantly strengthening India’s near-shore anti-submarine capabilities with enhanced automation, manoeuvrability and endurance, the merchandise added.
The 93-metre-long, 19.6-metre-wide hybrid electrical methanol-ready CSOV volition enactment the commissioning, installation, and attraction of offshore upwind turbines. Equipped with hybrid-electric propulsion, methanol-ready engines, ample lithium-ion artillery packs, dynamic positioning (DP2), and a motion-compensated gangway system, the vas ensures harmless and businesslike operations adjacent successful unsmooth seas. It volition besides service arsenic a “floating hotel” for offshore technicians, according to the relase.
The DCI Dredge Godavari, to beryllium launched for the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), volition beryllium India’s largest and astir precocious dredger, according to CSL. Built successful collaboration with Royal IHC, Netherlands, the 12,000-cubic-metre trailer suction hopper dredger, with a magnitude of 127 metres and a dredging extent of 36 metres, volition heighten DCI’s capableness for larboard deepening, reclamation, and attraction dredging. The motorboat comes up of India Maritime Week 2025, which begins connected October 27 successful Mumbai.
