GE Shipping acquires new OSV

The Mumbai based Great Eastern Shipping Company (GE) recently took delivery of a newly built OSV named Malaviya Twenty Five from the Indian shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard Ltd.

Bharati Shipyard has also won an order from GE for a 140 tonne bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessel with delivery expected by mid-2007. GE has also signed a contract with STX Shipbuilding in Korea for the construction of 2 Long Range One (LR1) product tankers of 74,500 dwt each.