SWTD ferry crew getting used to new catamaran vessels
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Services launched on Ernakulam-Vypeen-Fort Kochi route
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The first catamaran ferry of the SWTD conducting trial run through the Kochi backwaters. | Photo Credit:
Thulasi Kakkat
Services launched on Ernakulam-Vypeen-Fort Kochi route
One of the two catamaran ferries that were withdrawn from service soon after their launch here in February has commenced service on the Ernakulam-Vypeen-Fort Kochi route.
The modern ferry was put to trial runs and kept in standby to be put in operation in case any of the five old vessels in service was withdrawn.
They were withdrawn for installing fans, grab handles, and a few other additions, in accordance with suggestions made by people’s representatives and others to improve the quality of service and to reduce heat within. Crew members who are familiar with single-hull ferries also had to get acclimatised with double-hull vessels, which have an eng
Catamaran ferries make their foray into Kochi
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Vessels to operate on Ernakulam-Vypeen-Fort Kochi-Ernakulam circular route
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Vessels to operate on Ernakulam-Vypeen-Fort Kochi-Ernakulam circular route
The State Water Transport Department’s (SWTD) fleet of seven steel boats in Kochi will be replaced in six months by modern catamaran vessels made of fibre-reinforced plastic, which provide added comfort and safety, the agency’s director, Shaji V. Nair, has said.
Similarly, the demand to dredge the water body near the Mattancherry boat Jetty is being repeatedly taken up with the Irrigation Department so that ferries can safely call at the jetty. The Irrigation Department has said that the work was recently tendered, he added, at a function held at Fort Kochi to launch a pair of catamaran ferries - the first vessels of their kind from the SWTD stable.