L&T Wins $95m Contract

Construction and engineering firm Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) Thursday bagged a $94.95m shipbuilding contract from BigLift Shipping of the Netherlands. L&T said that it would construct two ships for the Dutch company at the shipyard in its engineering complex at Hazira in Gujarat. L&T, which had forayed into shipbuilding last year, currently builds ships with a displacement of up to 20,000 deadweight MT (DWMT) and also plans to construct a shipbuilding yard for bigger vessels. Source: IANS