Barges are indigenously designed and built under relevant Naval Rules
The ‘Ammunition Cum Torpedo Cum Missile Barge, LSAM 20’, 6th Barge of 11 x ACTCM Barge Project built by MSME Shipyard, Suryadipta Projects Pvt Ltd, Thane, was delivered to the Indian Navy on 29 May 24 at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai for NAD (Karanja) http://indiannavy.nic.in .
The contract for building 11 X ACTCM Barge was signed between Ministry of Defence and Suryadipta Projects on 5 Mar 21 https://www.suryadipta.com/ .
Induction of these Barges would provide impetus to operational commitments of IN by facilitating Transportation, Embarkation and Disembarkation of articles and ammunition to IN Ships both alongside jetties and at outer harbours, said the Ministry http://mod.gov.in .
These Barges are indigenously designed and built under relevant Naval Rules and Regulation of Indian Register of Shipping http://irclass.org . The model testing of the Barge during the design stage was undertaken at Naval Science and Technological Laboratory, Visakhapatnam. Fiinews.com
