Many arguments about the capabilities of a tug can be quickly settled when you can conduct a full-ahead power, bollard pull test. “Many captains will argue about horsepower, hull design, rudder angles ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as the government is going ahead with the Vizhinjam project, the bollard testing facility installed and being maintained by Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) at Vizhinjam harbour ...

A facility installed on the Vizhinjam coast to test the maximum tugging capacity of a ship is scheduled to become operational on September 23. Minister for Ports K. Babu is scheduled to dedicate to ...

Working with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and consultant Ade Walton from Prozeus, Tyne and Wear Marine (TWM) has spent the last year developing the Bollard Load Test (BLT), which uses a ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The proposed Vizhinjam port project is poised to get a big fillip as Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) is installing a Bollard Pull Test facility at Vizhinjam in association with ...