For Singapore-based Cutech Group, the opportunity to help build the new capital city of Amaravati, India's first smart city, in southern Andhra Pradesh state, represents a new lifeline.
This comes as the offshore marine engineering firm has been diversifying into refinery testing and inspections, solar and water treatment services and even organic chicken farming, as local shipyards - which used to be its main revenue source - suffered a long hard winter after oil prices tanked in 2014.
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