Second Navy vessel with oxygen cylinders arrives at NMPT
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INS Kolkata with liquid medical oxygen and high flow oxygen concentrators from Kuwait landed at the New Mangaluru Port on Monday.
The second Indian Navy vessel carrying oxygen and other medical aid from Kuwait arrived at the New Mangaluru Port on Monday.
According to a press release by the New Mangaluru Port Trust, the Indian Navy vessel INS Kolkata brought two containers with 20 tonnes of oxygen, 200 oxygen cylinders packed in 10 pallets of 10 ton and four 10-litre high flow oxygen concentrators. This was sent by Government of Kuwait to the Indian Red Cross Society for use in treatment of COVID-19 patients.
INS Talwar is the first vessel under the Samudra Setu-II operation which embarked from Bahrain to reach New Mangaluru Port at 1.30pm on Wednesday.
MANGALURU: The New Mangaluru Port Trust (NMPT) handled the first naval vessel INS Talwar, which was carrying 40MT of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) under the Samudra Setu-II operation launched by the Indian Navy.
Upon its arrival, the vessel was given the highest priority berthing in the port, at berth No. 7.
The LMO is donated by the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Indian Red Cross Society, as a token of goodwill to overcome the current pandemic situation.
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