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GRSE in talks with South Asian, Middle Eastern, African nations for defence exports
By: FE Bureau | November 25, 2020

The company is looking to increase its capacity from making 20 warships a year to 24 warships in the next three years

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GRSE lays keel of large suvey vessel for Indian Navy

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Coastal research vessel (CRV) Sagar Anveshika commissioned.

India's marine scientific research capability has received a boost with the commissioning of coastal research vessel (CRV) Sagar Anveshika. The vessel joins the fleet of three other vessels of the same class — Sagar Tara, Sagar Nidhi, and Sagar Sampada –and will help Indian scientists to undertake a variety of oceanographic research tasks.

The vessel is fitted with ‘state of the art’ laboratories and 25 scientists can be embarked to conduct research. The onboard submersible can dive 6 km below the sea and the scientists would be able to undertake research for nearly 16 hours. This capability, is a shot in the arm of India’s scientific knowledge of oceans and sea.

Sagar Anveshika, according to Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, would also augment India’s Blue Economy, which figures prominently in the country’s march towards sustainable development of sea based resources.

Blue Economy is now considered as the fountainhead of a number of national priorities which can potentially trigger national growth, economic prosperity and job creation. While dedicating the Kochi-Mangaluru natural gas pipeline to the nation last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed that Blue Economy will be an important source of ‘Aatamnirbhar Bharat’ and sketched out a multi-pronged plan for “improvement of coastal infrastructure and protecting the marine ecosystem”.

At the heart of marine scientific research and Blue Economy is data which is generated by sensors, machines and humans. A large number of platforms, observation stations and monitoring devices are embedded-positioned at vantage locations under the sea, on the water, and in the space. These continuously observe, collect and transmit scientific data which is characterised by 5Vs i.e. ‘volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value’.

It is a mix of structured and unstructured data and therefore presents major challenge for scientists to obtain clear trends, determine outcomes and initiate responses. There will be in future billions of devices receiving/transmitting zettabytes (ZB) of data and would therefore would have to be kept in special storages.

Hindustan Shipyard Limited enters export market
The pipe laying vessel named Lay Vessel North Ocean LV105 is of a US firm MCDERMOTT, which is used for deep sea pipe laying with electric propulsion and is the largest to be docked at 17000T light weight.

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The Ministry of Shipping is developing the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) on National Waterway-1 (NW-1) from Haldia to Varanasi (1390 km) with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank at an estimated cost of ₹4,633.81 crores. The project would enable commercial navigation of vessels with capacity of 1500-2,000 DWT.

NW-1 (River Ganga) under JMVP, which was approved by the Cabinet Committee For Economic Affairs in Jan 2018, is currently under construction and set to be completed by Dec 2023.

Cargo ship sails from Patna to Pandu heralding a new age of logistics for Assam.

Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and AYUSH, Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off an inland waterway vessel MV Lal Bahadur Shastri from Patna to Guwahati on Saturday. The vessel which started its journey from Patna is carrying 200 Metric Tonnes of foodgrains headed for Pandu in Guwahati & will travel via Bangladesh to reach the destination by early March, 2022.

The minister also laid the foundation stone for construction of Kalughat intermodal terminal at Saran in Bihar on National Waterway - 1 (river Ganga).

The vessel starts its sail on National Waterway-1 (river Ganga) through Bhagalpur, Manihari, Sahibganj, Farakka, Tribeni, Kolkata, Haldia, Hemnagar; Indo Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) route through Khulna, Narayanganj, Sirajganj, Chilmari and National Waterway-2 through Dhubri, and Jogighopa covering a distance of 2,350 km.

The vessel will take about 25 days to cover the entire voyage and is expected to reach Pandu in Guwahati by early March.

This historic feat will usher a new era of growth for all the states of Northeast India, a government statement said.

The waterways will cut through the landlocked access which has been crippling development in the region for long. The waterways not only remove this geographical hindrance on the road of progress in the region but also provides an economical, swift and convenient transportation for the businesses and people of the region.

In line with the “Act East" policy of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) has taken up several infrastructure projects on National Waterway-1, Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route, and NW2, through the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). These steps will improve the connectivity with North Eastern Region (NER) through waterways. The Government has undertaken the ambitious Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) with an investment of about Rs. 4600 crore for the capacity augmentation of NW-1 (river Ganga) for safe and sustainable movement of vessels upto 2000 tonnes.

Speaking on this landmark moment, Sonowal, said, “This is a historic moment for all of Northeast as we embark to reap the benefit of the most seamless cargo transportation through Brahmaputra. This is not just a journey from Patna to Pandu but it is a journey of unfulfilled desires & aspirations to reach out to a wider world via waterways. The opportunity for the people of Assam & Northeast is tremendous."

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) aims at running regular scheduled services on these routes. The Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) between India and Bangladesh allows mutually beneficial arrangements for the use of their waterways for the movement of goods between the two countries by vessels of both countries.

National Waterway-1 (River Ganga) is connected to National Waterway-2 (River Brahmaputra) and National Waterway-16 (River Barak) through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) routes. To improve the navigability, two stretches of IBP routes, i.e., Sirajganj-Daikhowa and Ashuganj-Zakiganj are also being developed at a cost of Rs. 305.84 crores on an 80:20 share basis (80% being borne by India and 20% by Bangladesh). The development of these stretches is expected to provide seamless navigation to NER via the IBP route. The contracts for dredging on the two stretches for providing and maintaining requisite depth for a period of seven years (from 2019 to 2026) are underway.

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Dedication of Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited (HCSL) to the Nation

This not a Greenfield facility. It's a rehabilitation of an existing ship yard.

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This is a 200 year old facility that is being revived by CSL.

Upstart Indian shipper helps get Russian oil to market

A small office in a suburb of Mumbai helps explain how Russian crude continues to flow. The address is home to an Indian shipping company that didn’t manage a single ship until 2022. It took control of two dozen tankers after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and has put them to work shuttling Russian crude along newly established trade routes to the Mediterranean, Turkey and India, vessel-ownership and tracking data show.

Gatik Ship Management is among the most active of the upstart companies that have snapped up aging oil tankers to replace Western-owned ships no longer dealing with Russia. That parallel fleet is helping Moscow get crude to buyers in Asia, according to shipping executives, brokers and vessel-tracking, ownership and insurance data.
A person who answered the phone at Gatik’s office confirmed that the company managed about 25 tankers.

Among those providing tankers is Gatik. Since June it has taken 25 ships under its wing, according to a European Union shipping database. Their average age is 17, when tanker owners typically consider sending ships to scrap.

Gatik is the manager of the ships, not the owner, according to the EU database. The registered owners of 20 of the tankers—many of which are named after Greek mythological figures such as Electra, Odysseus and Hector—have the same Mumbai address as Gatik. The company that owns a Gatik tanker called Buena Vista, which delivered Russian crude to India this month, is Social Club Inc.

The U.S. designed the sanctions so Western and Japanese insurance clubs—associations that provide coverage against accidents such as oil spills—would underwrite tankers. Gatik took out this cover, called protection-and-indemnity insurance, from the American Club, according to an insurance database and a senior manager at the club.

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Mumbai JNPA Welcomes 399 m Container Ship, The Longest Ever To Visit The Port.

In a major achievement, the JNPA has played host to the longest-ever visitor it has ever had — a 399-meter cargo vessel, an official reported on Saturday.

The 54-meter-wide cargo ship, MSC Hamburg that, has been flying the flag of Panama, boasts a capacity of 16,652 TEUs and a draught of 14 meters, which is berthed at the

JNPA safely at about 11.25 am, becoming the longest vessel to have called at any port in India.

Built-in 2015, the MSC Hamburg set sail from its port of origin, Sri Lanka’s Colombo, on a planned and well-executed voyage, sailing almost 1,750 km to JNPA per schedule.

Delighted by the arrival of the long-fellow, Sanjay Sethi, JNPA Chair, said that the port plays a vital role in improving global supply chains and the arrival of MSC Hamburg has bolstered the capabilities of the port in catering to the evolving trade demands across the continents.

The arrival of the MSC Hamburg marks a major milestone in establishing JNPA as a global hub for maritime excellence and also reaffirms the position not merely as a key player worldwide, but underlines dedication to fostering more strengthened partnerships and facilitating efficient operations, explained Sethi.

To commemorate the occasion, Sethi, with Shri Unmesh Sharad Wagh, JNPA’s Deputy Chair U.S., Balasaheb Pawar, Deputy Conservator, and Girish Thomas, the GM, presented a plaque to MSC Hamburg’s Master.