MoD Signs ₹583 Crore Contract For Two Pollution Control Vessels For Coast Guard
NEW DELHI: The ships, designed, developed and built by GSL, are
scheduled for delivery by November 2024 and May 2025 respectively, a Ministry
statement said.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Tuesday signed a contract with Goa Shipyard
Limited (GSL) for the construction of two Pollution Control Vessels (PCVs) for
the Coast Guard at a cost of about ₹583 crore.
Defence Ministry signs contract with Goa Shipyard Ltd for construction of two pollution control vessels for Indian Coast Guard at a cost of about Rs 583 crore: Officials
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 22, 2021
The ships, designed, developed and built by GSL, are scheduled for delivery by
November 2024 and May 2025 respectively, a Ministry statement said.
“The new PCVs planned are for pollution response requirements in Eastern and
the ecologically sensitive Andaman and Nicobar regions. The vessels, with
capability of operating helicopter onboard, will have many advanced features
with modern pollution response equipment of niche technology for containing,
recovering and dispersing of marine oil spill,” the statement said.
At present, the Coast Guard has three PCVs in Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and
Porbander to carry out dedicated pollution surveillance, oil spill monitoring,
response operations in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) and around islands.
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