Cochin Shipyard Limited to build multipurpose vessels under Make in India campaign

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CSL to build multipurpose vessels under Make in India campaign | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, April 10, 2015 - 21:16

Kochi: Government-owned Cochin Shipyard Limited will build Indian Navy's multi-purpose vessels, including warships, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious "Make-in-India" campaign which aims to turn the country into a manufacturing powerhouse of weapons.

Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said an agreement would be signed between the Defence Ministry and the Ministry of Shipping to manufacture different types of naval ships, including warships, in the next five years at CSL as part of government's efforts to "encourage the Indian industries".

Dedicating a specialized multi-purpose Buoy Tender Vessel to the nation at the shipyard here, Gadkari said he discussed the matter with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar yesterday and "he assured me we will make an agreement between the two ministries" in this regard.

As per the agreement to be signed, Gadkari said that in the next five years, whatever orders are from the Defence Ministry to manufacture ships, that will go to Cochin Shipyard.

Asked for further clarification on the agreement, he said the Defence Ministry is "mentally prepared" to give orders to the Cochin Shipyard Limited and "they are just studying how much requirement the Navy has in the next five years".

"They will give the order to the Cochin Shipyard. There will be agreement between the Defence Ministry and the Shipping Ministry," the Minister said.

He said the ships to be manufactured in Cochin Shipyard Limited includes warships and other different types of ships, based on the requirement of the Navy.

"My feeling is that we are fully capable and Cochin Shipyard is 101 per cent fully capable. It only needs confidence and ambition. Without ambition, we cannot make progress," the Shipping Minister said.

Gadkari asked Cochin Shipyard Limited to start expansion of its capacity so that it can can play a lead role in ship- building in the country.

Noting that Cochin Port Trust has already given some land to Cochin Shipyard Limited, the Minister said "my request is to let us plan for its future expansion" not only in Kochi, but also along different coasts of India.

"We want the expansion of Cochin Shipyard into different parts of India. Already, we have land in Kandla Port... We also have a proposal in Andaman and Nicobar Islands...

"We are going to put in long-term investment from the government side, we are also going to raise capital from the market and I feel that we can give a new shape to this industry," he said.

The Minister assured that money and technology are not the problem for the expansion and said, "the strong political will and appropriate vision can lead to miracle."

Gadkari said as far as Cochin Shipyard Limited is concerned, it is fully supported by the government and already orders are being placed for two ships of 1200 passenger capacity, two ships of 500 capacity and two ships of 400 passengers capacity for Andaman and Nicobar Island administration.

Emphasising the need for further expanding the ship- building capacity of Cochin Shipyard, the Minister said the government was in the process of developing inland waterways of the country and there would be requirement for more vessels for the purpose.

"Regarding inland waterways...We are interested in manufacturing different types of ships....Even you can think about manufacturing sea planes. The technology is available, huge market potential is there," the Minister said.

Gadkari expressed confidence that the Cabinet note for shipbuilding would get approval very soon.

The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri Nitin Gadkari dedicates to the Nation the buoy tender vessel Indira Point built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited for Directorate General Lighthouses and Lightships, in Cochin on April 10, 2015.

 

[indo]

I don't understand one thing though, what were these guys waiting for all these years?
I mean they could have sold patrol ships etc to smallers countries or others by themselves and earned some profit. Ultimately its a business right?

 

[Hindustani78]

The Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri P. Radhakrishnan unveiling the plaque to inaugurate the Vessel Traffic management System (VTMS), at Kamarajar Port ltd., in Chennai on April 15, 2015. The CMD, Kamarajar Port Limited, Shri M.A. Bhaskarachar and the CMD, Chennai Port Trust, Shri Atulya Misra are also seen.

The Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri P. Radhakrishnan addressing after inaugurating the Vessel Traffic management System (VTMS), at Kamarajar Port ltd., in Chennai on April 15, 2015. The CMD, Kamarajar Port Limited, Shri M.A. Bhaskarachar and the CMD, Chennai Port Trust, Shri Atulya Misra are also seen.

VTMS regulates the arrival of vessels at Jawaharlal Nehru Port channel. It has a radar for monitoring and controlling the vessel real time position with sophisticated RISC based Alpha Server used for easy control of system.

VTMS comprises of one radar station at JNPT. The radar video along with control / status signals are transmitted to the harbour master’s control tower by means of optical fibre cable. The radar data processor and radar display are installed at control room to remotely control the radar of radar site. A microcomputer with stand by and interface to the port management computer system maintain the database of vessel movements, vessel related information and aid to the scheduling of arrival of vessels at JNPT.


Features of VTMS

· Improvement in safety of vessel traffic by supervision of the entrance area, the anchorage area, main route to JNPT and identification of vessels leaving a waiting area.

· Providing information to vessels during bad weather conditions regarding traffic situation.

· Regulates maritime traffic flow.

· Improvement in the planning of berth, anchoring area occupancy and traffic.

· Communication media to prevent accidental strandings, collisions trenching of sub-sea pipelines.

· Monitoring position of buoys and beacons in navigational channel.

· The whole area of interest is under radar coverage.

· Targets within the radar coverage zone are automatically detected and tracked.

· Tracked targets are displayed on bright colour display.

· Violation of navigational rules inside the controlled area are warned acoustically and visually.

· All channels, pipelines, platforms, guard zones, anchoring zones are graphically displayed superimposed

on the radar picture.

 

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I don't understand one thing though, what were these guys waiting for all these years?
I mean they could have sold patrol ships etc to smallers countries or others by themselves and earned some profit. Ultimately its a business right?

CSL comes under ministry of shipping and thus they were building mostly cargo ships and even sell it to other countries. Its just that they had docks large enough to build aircraft carriers, they were awarded for construction of Vikrant.