The contract is worth approximately
USD 54 million and the order is to be executed in 33 months, GRSE informed the
National Stock Exchange and BSE.
GRSE
signed the agreement with shipping company Carsten Rehder Schiffsmakler und
Reederei GmbH and Co. KG, Germany, for the construction and delivery of four
multi-purpose vessels with an option of building another four ships in near
future, the GRSE official said in a statement.
The vessels
will be 120 metres long and 17 metres wide and can carry 7,500 metric tonnes of
cargo each, the GRSE official said.
The
vessels will have a single cargo hold each to accommodate bulk, general and
project cargoes, with provision for carrying containers on hatch covers, he
said, adding that the ships have been specifically designed to carry multiple
large windmill blades on deck.
The
agreement was signed here by Commodore Shantanu Bose, (retd), director
(shipbuilding) for GRSE and Carsten Thomas Rehder, managing director for the
German shipping company in the presence of Chairman and Managing Director of
GRSE, Commodore P R Hari, (retd).
The
Kolkata-based PSU warship maker has been actively pursuing exports in both
maritime and commercial vessels and has built and delivered an offshore patrol
vessel to Mauritius, a fast patrol vessel to Seychelles and a
passenger-cum-cargo ocean-going ferry to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,
the official said.
GRSE is currently in the process of
building six patrol boats and a dredger for Bangladesh, he said.