Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) is the largest shipbuilding and maintenance facility in India.[2][3] It is part of a line of maritime-related facilities in the port-city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India.[4] The shipyard builds platform supply vessels and double-hulled oil tankers. It has built big vessels up to 1,20,000 DWT capacity, making it the leading shipyard in India in terms of capacity. The company has Miniratna status.[5]
History
Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in 1972 as a Government of India company, with the first phase of facilities coming online in 1982.
In August 2012, the Government of India announced plans of divestment to raise capital of ₹15 billion for further expansion through an initial public offering (IPO) towards the end of the fiscal year.[6] The government finalised the decision of stake sale on 18 November 2015. 33.9 million shares were planned to be sold, out of which the government held 113,000 shares while the others were 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.[5]
Activities
The yard has facilities to build vessels up to 1,10,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) and repair vessels up to 1,25,000 DWT.[7][8]
Shipbuilding
The first ship to roll out of the Cochin Shipyard was the MV Rani Padmini in 1981.[9]
The yard has delivered two of India's largest double-hullAframaxtankers, each of 95,000 DWT, including Maharshi Parashuram and Abul Kalam Azad.
CSL has secured shipbuilding orders from internationally renowned companies from Europe and the Middle East. The shipyard is building six 30,000 DWT bulk carriers for Clipper Group of the Bahamas and the first three vessels have been launched.[10]
On December 27 2024,Adani Ports and SEZ, through its subsidiary, Ocean Sparkle Limited, ordered eight tug boats from CSL. The order is worth about ₹450 crores comprisng eight 70 T Bollard Pull Azimuthing Stern Drive Tugs delivered by Udupi Cochin Shipyard Limited. Deliveries will start in December 2026 and are expected to be completed by August 2028. [11]
Cochin Shipyard built India's first indigenous aircraft carrier. INS Vikrant (formerly, the Project 71 "Air Defence Ship"), 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.[12] Sea trials finally began on 4 August.[13] Five day long sea trials were successfully completed on 8 August 2021.[14] The ship was commissioned on 2 September 2022.[15]
It performed major overhauls for the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya in 2016 and 2018.
Recently[when?] CSL was awarded major maintenance and upgrade orders from ONGC. This included major overhaul of three rigs, the mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) Sagar Vijay, mobile offshore drilling unit Sagar Bhushan and jackup rigSagar Kiran.
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