HSL delivers tug to Deendayal Port Trust

Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) Friday delivered a tug to the Deendayal Port Trust This was the 181stvessel delivered by HSL and the second such vessel being delivered in this financial year, a shipyard the press release said here today.

The tug, designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, can attain a speed of 12 knots and is equipped with state-of-the-art external firefighting equipment.

It would sail to Gandhidham to join Deendayal Port Trust, covering 2,200 nautical miles on her maiden voyage, it said. The Chairman and Managing Director of the shipyard, Rear Admiral L V Sarat Babu congratulated officers, staff, workers, and partners of HSL for their concerted efforts in enabling completion of the vessel, the release said.