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Bharati Shipyard acquires equipment

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MUMBAI, India -- Bharati Shipyard Ltd. has acquired all of the shipyard machinery and equipment of Swan Hunter Shipyard Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Through this acquisition, BSL has acquired fully automated panel lines, quayside traveling gantry cranes up to 180-metric-ton (198-ton) capacity, 30 overhead traveling cranes up to 60-metric-ton (66-ton) capacity, plate bending rolls, bending presses, and robotic profiling machines, as well as other machinery and equipment.

The equipments will be used at BSL's existing yards.

The acquisition of Swan Hunter's a 20,000-metric-ton (22,046-ton) lift capacity floating dock will value to BSL's existing operations, the company says, allowing BSL to save cost and lead time.

4/24/2007

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