Bharati Shipyard to build greenfield shipyard at Dabhol, Maharashtra

Bharati Shipyard Ltd plan to construct a greenfield shipyard at Usgaon near the Dabhol port in Ratnagiri district.

The yard will be equipped to build vessels up to 100,000 DWT and is expected to be fully operational in the next two years.

"The yard will be spread over an area of more than 250 acres," said P C Kapoor, managing director, Bharti Shipyard. "We have already acquired more than 180 acres of land."

The yard is situated inside a creek away from the main sea, which makes it suitable for ship building in all weather conditions. The yard has many other locational advantages including very good water depth, adequate waterfront, scope for further expansion, etc. The civil work and the capex including installation of machineries at the yard has already commenced.

The majority of the machinery and equipment including Swan Hunter Shipyard's floating dock, will be set up at Dabhol. In April 2007, Bharati Shipyard had acquired all the shipyard machinery and equipments of the Wallsend, Newcastle-upon Type-based Swan Hunter Shipyard.

Through this acquisition Bharati Shipyard had acquired fully automated panel lines, quayside travelling gantry cranes up to 180T capacity, overhead travelling cranes with a capacity of up to 60T, 2000-ton capacity plate bending rolls, bending presses, robotic profiling machines, CNC plasma buring equipments, among others, to furbish its new, greenfield project.

This machinery and equipment will now equip its Dabhol shipyard as they are ideal for building vessels up to 250,000 DWT.

With the increased shipbuilding capacity, the new shipyard would also help boost allied industries, which are also on a higher growth phase and create job opportunities for more than 3000 people, the company said.