Iran-Made OSRV Vessel Launched in Persian Gulf

Date: 05 March 2021 - 21:27

News ID: ۸۸۲۴۵

TEHRAN (Press TV) - Iran’s ports authority has launched a major home-made Oil Spill Response Vessel (OSRV) to boost environment protection efforts in the Persian Gulf waters.
Iran’s transportation minister Muhammad Eslami travelled to the southern port city of Bushehr on Thursday to inaugurate a series of port projects which included the launch of "Darya Pak 1”.
Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) has spent 21 million euros ($25.27 million) to build Darya Pak, which literally translates as clean sea.
The ship is 55.5 meters long, 13 meters wide and six meters tall. It has a draft of four meters and a storage capacity of 550 cubic meters for recovered oil.
A local PMO official in Bushehr said that the ship has been designed to improve oil spill management capacity in regions located to the westernmost of the Persian Gulf where a bulk of Iran’s crude production and export facilities are located.
The PMO was involved in a clean-up operation for a major oil leak in the Persian Gulf in late 2019.
Darya Pak is the first OSRV fully designed and delivered by Iranian shipbuilders, said a report on PMO’s website, which added that the vessel is equipped with some of the most advanced devices and gadgets to improve PMO’s response to sporadic oil spills that occur in southern Iranian waters.
The vessel is equipped with a 350-meter drum oil skimmer, a dispersant system, a powerful pump and an electronically controlled diesel engine that allows it to sail with a speed of 16 knots.
Iran has increasingly relied on its home-grown shipbuilding sector to modernize its maritime fleet since the country came under a series of US sanctions in 2018.