Fincantieri delivers tanker to India's Navy

摘要

In late January the Italian yard delivered Deepak, the first of two 27,5000 tonne double hulled tankers to the Indian Navy. According to the Italian yard the order was the first surface vessel India has ordered from a European yard which was in direct competition with international players, notably in Russia and Korea. Shakti, the sister ship to Deepak, was launched last October at Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa and is currently being fitted out at the Muggiano yard in La Spezia. Delivery is scheduled for autumn this year. Deepak and Shakti are 175m long with a 25m beam and a 19m height and are powered by two 10,000kW diesel engines with a variable pitch propeller will power the vessels to a maximum speed of 20knots. A Fincantieri statement said: "We consider the market in the East strategic and we hold in high regard the development of co-operation with our prestigious Indian partner, proof of which is both the opening in recent years of a representative office in New Delhi and, now, of a Fincantieri technical support unit in India in order to guarantee to the Indian Navy maximum availability and efficiency of the new Fleet Tankers."