Three warships reach India with oxygen and medical supplies | India News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: Three Indian warships, with large oxygen-filled containers, cylinders and other medical supplies from abroad, reached the country on Monday under the ongoing Operation Samudra Setu-II launched by the Navy.
Stealth frigate INS Trikand arrived at Mumbai with 40 metric ton (MT) of liquid medical oxygen in cryogenic containers from the Hamad Port at Doha in Qatar. “This consignment is part of `Oxygen Solidarity Bridge’ of France, through its mission in Qatar, to support India’s fight against Covid-19 pandemic,” said Navy spokesperson Commander Vivek Madhwal. The India-French initiative is aimed at shipping over 600 MT of liquid oxygen to India over the next two months.
Destroyer INS Kolkata, in turn, reached the New Mangalore port with two 27-MT containers filled with liquid oxygen, 400 cylinders and 47 oxygen concentrators that were embarked at Qatar and Kuwait.

INS Trikand at Mumbai.
Similarly, amphibious warfare ship INS Airavat arrived in Visakhapatnam with eight empty 20-MT cryogenic tanks and 3,898 cylinders, along with other medical supplies like oxygen concentrators, 10,000 rapid antigen test kits and 450 PPE suits, from Singapore.

INS Airavat entering Visakhapatnam.
“These three warships are part of nine deployed under Operation Samudra Setu-II for shipment of liquid medical oxygen and associated medical equipment from friendly foreign countries in the Persian Gulf and South East Asia. Two more warships are on their way to India from Kuwait, while one is now at Brunei to embark medical supplies,” said Commander Madhwal.
The IAF, too, continues to airlift empty cryogenic oxygen containers from abroad as well as within the country to ease transportation bottlenecks. As on Monday, IAF aircraft had carried out 534 sorties in different parts of the country, airlifting 336 containers of a total capacity of 6,420 MT and other medical supplies.
IAF aircraft have also carried out 84 international sorties, airlifting 81 cryogenic storage containers of a total capacity of 1,407 MT, along with 1,252 empty cylinders, 705 oxygen concentrators and Zeolite (respiratory oxygen raw material). The equipment has been procured from Singapore, Dubai, Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Indonesia and Israel.

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