Offshore staff
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
