Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) is a shipbuilding facility in

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. It is part of a line of maritime-related facilities in the port-city of

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of ...

, in the state of Kerala, India. Of the services provided by the shipyard are building platform supply vessels and double-hulled oil tankers. It built the first indigenous aircraft carriers for the

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, the . The company has Miniratna status.

History

Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in 1972 as a

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company, with the first phase of facilities coming online in 1982. In August 2012, the

announced plans of

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to raise capital of Rs. 15 billion for further expansion through an

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(IPO) towards the end of the fiscal year. The government finalised the decision of stake sale on 18 November 2015. 33.9 million shares will be sold, out of which the government is holding shares while the others are fresh equity. However, this did not materialise until August 2017, when the company conducted its IPO and listed its shares on the BSE and NSE.

Activities

The yard has facilities to build vessels up to 1.1 lakh tons and repair vessels up to 1.25 lakh tons.

Shipbuilding

The first ship to roll out of the Cochin Shipyard was the MV Rani Padmini in 1981. The yard has delivered two of India's largest double-

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Aframax

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s each of . CSL has secured shipbuilding orders from internationally renowned companies from Europe and the Middle East. The shipyard is building six bulk carriers for

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of the

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and the first three vessels have been launched. Eight

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s for the Norwegian Seatankers Management Company, are also under construction.

INS Vikrant

Cochin Shipyard built India's first indigenous aircraft carrier. (formerly, the Project 71 "Air Defence Ship") is the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy to be designed and built in India. The carrier will be the largest warship built by CSL. In February 2020, all major structural and outfitting work was declared complete. On 4 August, sea trials finally began. Five day long sea trials were successfully completed on 8 August 2021. On 2 September 2022, The ship was commissioned.

Ship repair

The shipyard started offering ship repair services in 1982 and has undertaken upgrades and repairs for all types of ships including ships for the

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industry as well as scheduled maintenance and life extension for ships of the

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, the Union territory of

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, Fisheries and Cochin Port Trust,

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and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). It has performed major overhauls for the aircraft carrier, INS ''Viraat''. It has also performed major overhauls for the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya two times on 2016 and 2018 respectively. Recently CSL was awarded major maintenance and upgrade orders from ONGC. This included major overhaul of three rigs, Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) ''Sagar Vijay'', Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit ''Sagar Bhushan'' and

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''Sagar Kiran''.

Others

The shipyard also trains graduate engineers in

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. Around one hundred students are trained each year.

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