Ministry of Defence signed a contract with GSL for the construction of two PCVs for the Indian Coast Guard

 New Delhi,  Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) for the construction of two Pollution Control Vessels (PCVs) for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) at a cost of about Rs 583 crore on Tuesday.

These Specialized role ships will be indigenously designed, developed, and built by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) under ‘Buy Indian - Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (Buy Indian-IDDM)’, the highest priority category for defence capital procurements.

“The acquisition will significantly augment the capability of ICG to respond to Oil spill disasters at sea and also enhance Pollution Response (PR) efficiency. These two vessels are scheduled for delivery by November 2024 and May 2025 respectively”, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

At present, ICG has three PCVs in its fleet at Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Porbander to carry out dedicated Pollution Surveillance, Oil spill monitoring, response operations in the Indian ‘Exclusive Economic Zone’(EEZ) and around islands.

The new PCVs planned are for pollution response requirements in Eastern and the ecologically sensitive Andaman & Nicobar Regions. The vessels, with the capability of operating helicopters on board, will have many advanced features with modern PR equipment of niche technology for containing, recovering, and dispersing marine oil spills.

Source - UNI 

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