Colombo Dockyard delivers tug and barge

Colombo Dockyard PLC recently completed and delivered an eight-ton bollard pull tug (Femunu) and a 45 metre flat-top barge (Fehurihi) to the State Trading Organization (STO) of the Maldives.

Managing Director, STO, Ahmed Shaheer and Managing Director and CEO, Colombo Dockyard, Ranil Wijegunawardane signed the handing over protocols.

General Manager (Transport) Abdul Wahid Moosa and Technical Superintendent, STO, Mohamed Nimal, Chairman Dr. Toru Takehara, Director M. Koshi, General Manager, Shipbuilding, D.V. Abeysinghe, Manager, Special Projects, S.D. Gilbert, senior management and the project management team of Colombo Dockyard, the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), surveyors of the project led by Country Manager D.V.D. Prasada Rao and Surveyor Chanaka Rupasinghe, and Director General of Merchant Shipping in Sri Lanka, Ajith Seneviratne were also present.

During the past four decades, Colombo Dockyard has had a close and cordial relationship with Maldivian clients having built a number of 35-metre fisheries protection craft, 40-metre fisheries protection vessels, fire/patrol boat, 24-metre coastal surveillance vessels, fast landing craft, and fish collector vessels.