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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 19 The State-owned Steel Industrials Kerala Ltd (SILK) is set to launch two new steel passenger boats manufactured at its ship-building facility at Azhikkal in Kannur district.

The boats, costing Rs 2.25 crore, are 18-metre long and four-metre wide and can accommodate 75 passengers each.

The company could complete the work on the boats within 100 days as desired by the State Water Transport Department that placed the orders for them, according to an official statement from the Industries Department.

SILK, which went on stream in 1975, has five manufacturing units, two service divisions and two allied facilities across the State. The company had taken up work on several small hydro-electric projects within and outside the State, apart from manufacturing cast iron pipes for Kerala Water Authority and installation of water treatment plants and slaughter houses.

The Azhikkal unit commenced operations in 1984 as a ship-breaking yard with a view to ensuring the availability of scrap steel to iron and steel industries in the southern States.

The unit was also engaged in steel fabrication works alongside ship-breaking activities and it entered the field of building of small ships in 1992-93.

The unit has so far built and supplied 16 vessels of various classes to the Kerala Ports Department, Central Water Commission, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology and private entrepreneurs.

The boats will be flagged off by the Minister for Industries, Mr. Elamaram Kareem, at the Azhikkal unit on December 24.

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