Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC), the leader of the shipbuilding industry in Sri Lanka launched a cable laying and repair vessel to Orange Marine France.
Orange Marine is a French company specializing in the field of submarine telecommunications, from the initial design, engineering, to installation of intercontinental and regional links and maintenance of existing cables. Its fleet is one of the most experienced in the world and represents 15 percent of the world fleet.
Gracing the occasion were dignitaries from the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka, Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka, officials from government institutions, Customs, officials from state and private banks, ship designers, class surveyors.
This is a good chance to send the message that Colombo Dockyard will never give up under
lot of difficulties faced by Sri Lanka and we will continue to be a leader of cable layer vessels in the international market,” said CDPLC Chairman Hideaki Tanaka addressing the event.
CDPLC operates in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Company Limited of Japan, with a 35 percent stake by Sri Lankan government institutions. Expanding its business nearly five decades, CDPLC is the frontrunner of Sri Lankan industrialization as the leading contributors to the national export earnings from the shipbuilding sector, earning the much-needed foreign currency to the Sri Lankan economy.
