PANJIM: The keel laying ceremony of the third of the new class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) indigenously designed in–house and being built by Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) for the Indian Coast Guard was held at GSL.
IG SPS Basra, YSM, PTM,TM, Commander Coast Guard Region(West), RAdm (Retd.) Vineet Bakhshi VSM, Chairman and Managing Director, GSL DIG M V Baadkar, TM COMDIS(Goa), DIG R H Nandodkar, TM, CGRPS (Goa), senior officials of the Coast Guard and GSL were present. Helge Tryti, Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of Norway and delegates from Norway also attended.

