more-inThe Indian Navy’s first indigenously built Floating Dock (FDN-2), developed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), was launched at L&T’s shipyard in Kattupalli on Tuesday. The Navy already has one Floating Dock; this would be its second such facility, Vice Admiral DM Deshpande, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, Indian Navy, told reporters after his wife, Anjali Deshpande, launched the dock. “We already have a floating dry dock there. “It will be delivered in two to three months at Port Blair,” said B. Kannan, head of shipbuilding, L&T. We will do trials at sea both at Kattupalli and Port Blair,” he said.

Source: The Hindu June 20, 2017 15:45 UTC