CRUDE OIL VESSELS

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The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) presently has a total of seven crude oil tankers on order.

The SCI has placed order with Daewoo Shipyard, Korea for construction and delivery of two crude oil tankers of about 1,40,000 DWT each at a price of US$48.7 million per vessel. These vessels will be delivered to the SCI by October, 2004 and January, 2005 respectively.

This information was given in the Lok Sabha today by Shri Shripad Y. Naik, Minister of State for Shipping in a written reply to a question by Shri B.K.Parthasarathi and Shri G.S.Basavaraj.