In a first, a U.S. Navy Ship, Charles Drew<\/em>, arrived in India for carrying out repairs and allied services at Larsen & Toubro\u2019s (L&T) Shipyard at Kattupalli, Chennai, on Sunday adding a new dimension to the fast expanding Indo-U.S. strategic partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the first ever repair of a U.S. Navy ship in India. The U.S. Navy had awarded a contract to L&T\u2019s Shipyard at Kattupalli for undertaking maintenance of the ship. The event signifies the capabilities of Indian shipyards in the global ship repairing market,\u201d a Defence Ministry statement said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The USNS Charles Drew<\/em> will be at the Kattupalli shipyard for a period of 11 days and undergo repairs in various areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the India-U.S. 2+2 in April, both sides agreed to explore the possibilities of utilising Indian shipyards for the repair and maintenance of ships of the U.S. Maritime Sealift Command to support mid-voyage repair of U.S. Naval ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It will undergo maintenance activities at L&T\u2019s Shipyard in Chennai for 11 days In a first, a U.S. Navy Ship, Charles Drew, arrived in India for carrying out repairs and allied services at Larsen & Toubro\u2019s (L&T) Shipyard at Kattupalli, Chennai, on Sunday adding a new dimension to the fast expanding Indo-U.S. strategic partnership. \u201cThis is … Continue reading In a first, U.S. Navy Ship arrives in India for repairs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,206,20,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-business-economy","category-defence-services-airlandsea","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16131,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16129\/revisions\/16131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}