Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers

Not to be confused with Garden Reach.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd
गार्डन रीच शिपबिल्डर्स
Native name
 Hindi: गार्डन रीच शिपबिल्डर्स एंड इंजीनियर्स लिमिटेड
Bengali: গার্ডেনরিচ শিপবিল্ডার্স অ্যান্ড ইঞ্জিনিয়ার্স লিমিটেড
State-owned enterprise
Industry Shipbuilding
Founded 1884
Headquarters Kolkata, India
Area served
 India
Key people
 Rear Admiral AK Verma, IN(Retd)
Products Naval ships
Tankers
Bulk carriers
Platform supply vessels
Services Ship design
Ship building
Ship repair
Revenue ₹16.943495 billion (US$250 million) (2014)[1]
Number of employees
 3133 (April 2014)[1]
Website www.grse.nic.in

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (Hindi: गार्डन रीच शिपबिल्डर्स एंड इंजीनियर्स लिमिटेड; IAST: Gārḍen rīc șipabilḍars limiṭeḍ), abbreviated as GRSE (जी आर एस ई), is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal.[2] It builds and repairs commercial and navals vessels.[3] Presently GRSE has also started building export ships in a mission to expand its business.

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 nationalised by the Government of India in 1960.[4] It was awarded the Miniratna status, with accompanying financial and operational autonomy in September 2006.[5]

Facilities

GRSE has ship building facilities in Kolkata and Ranchi.

It has a large Computer Aided Design (CAD) centre for ship modelling and design. There are four workshops for plate preparation and steel fabrication.

GRSE has a dry dock for ships up to 26,000 tonnes 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.[6]

As of 2011, the shipyard is undergoing a ₹530 crore (US$79 million) upgrade programme, expected to be completed by March 2012.[7] The second phase of the upgrade programme began in June 2013.[8]

Vessels built

Commercial vessels

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.

Naval vessels

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.[3]

GRSE has built the Aditya-class auxiliary ship, Brahmaputra-class frigates, two Khukri and Kora-class corvettes. It constructed all the patrol vessels of the Seaward, Trinkat, Bangaram, and Car Nicobar classes.[9][10]

Among the amphibious warfare vessels, it has built are the Magar and Shardul classes.[11] In September 2011, it was awarded a ₹2,176 crore contract for building eight landing craft utility vessels.[12]

It has been awarded a contract to build four Kamorta-class corvettes.[2] On 18 February 2015, the Indian government approved the construction of seven Project 17A-class frigates, three of which will be constructed by Garden Reach Shipbuilding.[13]

Exports

GRSE delivered the corvette MCGS Barracuda to Mauritius on 20 December 2014. The contract was worth $58.5 million.[14] With this, India will join the elite club of warship exporters. The Mauritius offshore patrol vessel has an integrated bridge system and cutting edge controls and main engines and can support 83 member crew. It measures 74.10 metres (243.1 ft) in length and 11.40 metres (37.4 ft) in breadth and will be capable of moving at a maximum speed of 22 knots (41 km/h) with an approximate displacement of 1,350 tonnes.

GRSE has been short-listed for a patrol boat project for Vietnam worth ₹600 crore (US$89 million) and is also bidding for an order of two frigates for Philippines.[14][15]

References

  1. 1 2 http://grse.nic.in/Annual_Report_13-14.pdf
  2. 1 2 Kumar, Vinay (27 March 2013). "Third anti-submarine warfare corvette launched in Kolkata". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE)". GlobalSecurity.org. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Historical Background". Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shipping Corporation of India". india.gov.in. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  6. ↑ "GRSE takes over Rajabagan Dockyard of CIWTC". Business Standard. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Annual Report 2010-11" (PDF). Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  8. ↑ "About Us". Garden Reach Shipbuilders. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Trinkat Class". GlobalSecurity.org. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Bangaram Class". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 12 October 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Habbu, R.S. (5 January 2007). "INS Shardul dedicated". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Pandit, Ranjat (10 September 2011). "Amphibious vessels to strengthen Navy". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Pandit, Ranjat (18 February 2015). "Govt approves construction of 7 stealth frigates, 6 nuclear-powered submarines". Times of India. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  14. 1 2 "India to deliver corvette class warship to Mauritius on December 20". The Economic Times. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "MCGS Barracuda-First India's warship export to Mauritius". Affairscloud. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
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