India’s HSL to Build $2B Vessels with Tech Transfer from Turkey Our Bureau 2427 TAIS Fleet Support Ship Design for Indian Navy. India’s Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) could build five fleet support ships (FSSs) with technology transfer from Turkey’s Anadolu Shipyard, part of TAIS consortium. The project is expected to cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. TAIS announced back in June 2019 that it won the Indian Navy’s $2.3 billion (TL 16 billion) tender to build five 45,000-ton FSSs. Visakhapatnam-based HSL is expecting an order from the Navy by year-end for the building of the vessels. “The agreement with the Turkish consortium will kick in after HSL gets an order from the Indian Navy. If all goes well, that could happen by October 2021. Several Indian vendors will also be involved in the project,” sources familiar with the developments told Hindustan Times.