Kolkata, Jan. 30 -- Giving a push to the Make in India initiative, Rolls Royce Solutions has signed a MoU with Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd for locally producing high-quality marine diesel engines.
The German company has assented to cooperate with GRSE in the licence production and localisation of the technologically advanced MTU S4000 governmental marine engines.
These engines, with a power output of 746-4,300 KW, are compact, reliable, and easy to maintain.
They are used for fast patrol vessels, interceptor boats, and fast attack crafts built by GRSE and other shipyards around the country.
Up to now, these engines are imported, bringing down the indigenous content of these classes of vessels built at India...