Colombo Dockyard lays keel of cable laying and repair vessel for Orange Marine | Daily FT
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“Friday Apr 03, 2026”
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— 2026 (MMXXVI) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the …
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— Parliamentary elections are to be held in Hungary on 12 April 2026. This parliamentary election will be the 10th since the resumption of free elections in 1990.
Politico Europe has described them as t…
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— The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:
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“Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) yesterday auspiciously laid keel and commenced construction of Yard No. 0263, the newest Cable Laying and Repair Vessel for the Orange Marine of France.”
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— Gibdock is a shipyard in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It formerly operated as a Royal Navy Dockyard.
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— Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL) (IAST: Majhagānv Dawk Shipbuilders Limiṭeḍ) is a company with shipyards situated in Mazagaon, Mumbai. It manufactures warships and submarines for the Indian Na…
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— The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදාව, romanised: Śrī Laṃkā nāvika hamudāva; Tamil: இலங்கை கடற்படை, romanised: Ilaṅkai kaṭaṟpaṭai) is the naval arm of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces a…
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“The vessel to be constructed is an ultramodern, high technology vessel which is specially designed by VARD Design AS Norway”
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— The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by the American Commercial Cable Company. She is nota…
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— A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ships are distin…
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— A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
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“The vessel shall be 100m in length, 18.8m in breadth and 7.15m in depth and has a deadweight capacity of 1800 DWT.”
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“The vessel shall be built to Bureau Veritas Classification society standards and shall meet the regulatory requirements of the French Flag Authority and is scheduled to be delivered early 2028.”
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“CDPLC operates in joint collaboration with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd., of India (Mazagon) who owns a stake of 51% at Colombo Dockyard PLC.”
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“Orange Marine, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Orange Group, a cable ship owner specialised in offshore work on submarine cables, from designing and engineering new projects to installing new connections and maintaining existing cables (telecommunications, energy, or hybrid).”
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