Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd starts building fifth ship for German shipping company

Kolkata, Oct 29 (UNI) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) on Thursday advanced its largest commercial shipbuilding export order with the keel laying of the fifth Multi-Purpose Vessel (MPV) for German shipowner Carsten Rehder Schiffsmakler and Reederei GmbH & Co. KG, strengthening the Kolkata-based shipyard's foothold in the global commercial shipping market. The keel laying marks the first vessel under the second of three contracts between GRSE and the German company for a total of 12 CORAL 7500 deadweight-tonne (DWT) MPVs. The ceremony was attended by senior officials of GRSE, Carsten Rehder and the classification society DNV. Designed as…