GRSE Secures Rs. 491 Crore Research Vessel Order from NPOL

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd has signed a contract with the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) for construction of an Acoustic Research Ship (ARS). The contract, worth Rs 490.98 crore, was signed in Kochi by Cdr. Shantanu Bose, IN (Retd), Director (Shipbuilding), GRSE, and Shri Sijo N Lukose, Sc-G, Group Director (Material Management), NPOL. The ARS will be 90 metres long and 14 metres wide, capable of speeds ranging from 4 knots to 12 knots, and will have a complement of 70 personnel. The capabilities of the ARS will include deployment, towing and retrieval of various equipment, carrying out high-resolution surveys, meteorological surveys, and shallow water acoustic reverberation studies. It will also be capable of launching, mooring and maintaining standalone buoys and collecting data from them. The ARS will have a dynamic positioning system and diesel-electric propulsion. GRSE has immense experience in the construction of research and survey vessels.