Colombo Dockyard completes cable layer

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard has delivered the 5,757dwt KDDI Cable Infinity to Japanese owner Kokusai Cable Ship Co Ltd (KCS). The 113m-long vessel, the largest vessel ever to be built at the Sri Lankan facility, arrived in Yokohama early July.
Colombo Dockyard CEO, D.V. Abeysinghe, said: “The delivery of this modern-day highly sophisticated cable-laying vessel is testament to the pride and dedication exhibited by Colombo Dockyard’s shipbuilding team. It demonstrates Colombo Dockyard’s proven capability to design construct and deliver large, complex vessels to international markets as well as the domestic market.”
The DP2 vessel, built for worldwide, subsea operation to ClassNK rules, has a carousel with a capacity of 2,000 tonnes, accommodation for 80 persons and a speed of 14.5 knots. It will be deployed in the installation and repair of optical and power cables.
The diesel-electric vessel has four gensets, each with an output of 2,300 kW. Three of the generators are sufficient to meet the highest power demands and provide a bollard pull of 80 tonnes. Five controllable pitch thrusters with variable revolutions comprise a flexible and manoeuvrable system: there are two azimuth thrusters aft, and two tunnel thrusters and one azimuth thruster forward. The vessel is equipped with a scrubber and a selective catalytic reduction unit.
The ship’s basic design and detailed drawings were provided by VARD Designs of Norway.