| Type | State-owned enterprise |
|---|---|
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, India |
| Products | Naval ships Tankers Bulk carriers Platform supply vessels |
| Services | Ship design Ship building Ship repair |
| Website | www.grse.nic.in |
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It builds and repairs commercial and navals vessels.[1]
Founded in 1884 as a small privately-owned company on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, it was renamed as Garden Reach Workshop in 1916. The company was nationalized by the Government of India in 1960.[2] It was awarded the Miniratna status, with accompanying financial and operational autonomy in September 2006.[3]
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GRSE has ship building facilities in Kolkata and Ranchi.
It has a large Computer Aided Design (CAD) center for ship modeling and design. There are four workshops for plate preparation and steel fabrication.
GRSE has a dry dock for ships up to 26,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT). It has a building berth and two slipways for hull construction. It has a covered all-weather non-tidal wet basin for fitting-out medium and small ships and another fitting-out complex for ships with three berths alongside. In addition, it has two river jetties for berthing smaller vessels up to 60 metres (200 ft) in length. GRSE has engine repair and overhaul facilities in Ranchi.
On 1 July 2006, GRSE acquired the loss-making Rajabagan Dockyard (RBD) of Central Inland Water Transport Corporation (CIWTC). RBD's facilities with its 600 metres (2,000 ft) waterfront helped alleviate some of GRSE’s space constraints and increase its production capacity.[4]
As of 2011, the shipyard is undergoing a 5.3 billion (US$100.7 million) upgrade program, expected to be completed by March 2012.[5]
Among commercial and scientific ships, GRSE builds oceanographic and hydrographic research vessels, marine acoustic research ships, non-propelled dredgers, grab hopper dredgers, trailing suction hopper dredgers, tugboats, and bulk carriers.
GRSE has designed and built a number of warships and patrol vessels for the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard. Vessels built at GRSE include guided-missile frigates, corvettes, fleet tankers, fast patrol vessels, amphibious warfare vessels and hovercraft.[6]
GRSE built the Brahmaputra class frigates. It also built two of the Khukri class and all the Kora class corvettes. It has been awarded a contract to build four Kamorta class corvettes.
It built all the Seaward class, Bangaram class and Trinkat class patrol vessels, as well as the Car Nicobar class fast attack craft.[7][8]
Among the amphibious warfare vessels it has built are the Magar class and Shardul class landing ships.[9] In September 2011, it was awarded a 21.76 billion (US$413.44 million) contract for building eight landing craft utility vessels.[10]
It also built the Aditya class tankers.