Cochin Shipyard

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A view of one of the docks at the Cochin shipyard

Cochin Shipyard (CSL) is the largest ship building yard in India. It is located at Kochi, Kerala. The shipyard is named after the city of Kochi, which was formerly known as Cochin.

The shipyard also trains graduate engineers in marine engineering. ^[1] Around hundred students are trained each year.

1 History
2 Ship repairing
3 Upcoming ventures
4 See also
5 Notes

[edit] History

Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in the year 1972 as a fully owned Government of India company. In the last three decades the company has emerged as a forerunner in the Indian shipbuilding & Ship repair industry. This yard can build and repair the largest vessels in India.^[2] It can build ships up to 1,100,000 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) and repair ships up to 1,250,000 DWT. The yard has delivered two of India’s largest double hull Aframax tankers each of 95,000 DWT. CSL has secured shipbuilding orders from internationally renowned companies from Europe and Middle East and is nominated to build the country’s first indigenously built Aircraft carrier, the work on which has already commenced. Cochin shipyard is building six 30,000 DWT bulk carrier for Clipper Group of Bahamas and the first three has been launched.^[3] Eight platform supply vessel for Sea Tanker Management Group, Norway is also under construction.

[edit] Ship repairing

The shipyard commenced ship repair operations in the year 1982 and has undertaken repairs of all types of ships including upgradation of ships of oil exploration industry as well as periodical lay up repairs and life extension of ships of Navy, UTL, Coast Guard, Fisheries and Cochin Port Trust besides merchant ships of SCI & ONGC. The yard has, over the years, developed adequate capabilities to handle complex and sophisticated repair jobs.

[edit] Upcoming ventures

Recently Cochin Shipyard has bagged major repair orders from ONGC. The order for major repairs of three rigs viz Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Sagar Vijay, Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Sagar Bhushan and Jack Up Rig (JUR) Sagar Kiran, Trident-II,and dredger Nehru shatabdi of cochin port trust was secured by CSL.