Colombo Dockyard wins Greatship orders

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard, a unit of Japan’s Onomichi and the country’s sole listed shipbuilder, has won two new orders from Greatship (India), for bigger and more expensive vessels. Greatship is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company. The firm had previously ordered four anchor handling tugs from Colombo Dockyard, two of which have already been delivered.

The Indian firm, which provides services to the offshore oil and gas industry, has now placed an order for two multipurpose construction support vessels. The DP new buildings are scheduled for delivery in September 2010 and January 2011. The yard would not disclose the contract price but market analysts said these types of vessels for the offshore industry usually cost around $30 million each.