L&T Built Offshore Patrol Vessel Commissioned for Indian Coast Guard

Mumbai, Apr 11: The first privately built Offshore Patrol Vessel ICGS Vikram, under the Make in India initiative has been commissioned into the Indian coast Guard on Wednesday.

The Vessal, indigenously designed and built by Larsen & Toubro,l is the First of Class' of seven new generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) contracted by Ministry of Defence (MoD) to L&T in March 2015 ICGS Vikram class OPVs are long-range surface ships, equipped to handle helicopter operations and capable of operating in Indian maritime zones including island territories. The role of the OPV is to conduct coastal and offshore patrolling, policing maritime zones, control and surveillance, anti-smuggling and anti-piracy operations with limited wartime roles.
S.N. Subrahmanyan, CEO & MD, Larsen & Toubro commenting on the occasion said, said, ' L&T Shipyards have achieved unmatched stellar delivery performance in prestigious MoD contracts for 54 Interceptor Boats for Coast Guard, Floating Dock project for Navy and now the OPV for Coast Guard. This bears testimony to our capabilities and commitment towards 'Make in India'.
He said over the past decade, L&T had invested heavily in building state-of-the-art facilities and talent pool for Defence manufacturing and are fully geared up with sufficient capacity and financial strength to grow multifold in this sector in coming years.'
'Given the opportunity and a level playing field, L&T can provide the much-needed impetus to the augmentation of Indian Naval and Coast Guard fleets through in-house design and timely delivery of vessels,' he added. UNI