Cochin Shipyard and SFO Technologies have unveiled India’s first indigenously designed Hybrid Laser Arc Welding system at a new laser engineering centre in Kalamassery, near Kochi, Kerala. The companies say it should speed up ship construction, reduce weld distortion and cut dependence on imported welding platforms.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in Kolkata, eastern India, has delivered Amini, the fifth of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft for the Indian Navy. Accepted on 5 November, the 77.6-metre vessel is GRSE’s 119th warship and has about 88% indigenous content, a boost for India’s shipbuilding self-reliance.
India will hold the India Shipbuilding Investment Conclave 2026 in New Delhi on 16–17 November. Organised under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, it will present five shipbuilding clusters in coastal states to global shipyards and investors as India aims to become a top-five shipbuilding nation.
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders is seeking equity partners for two new shipbuilding clusters at Dighi on Maharashtra’s Konkan coast and Dugarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The projects, worth about Rs 20,000 crore, would each build up to 1.2 million gross tonnage of ships a year.
India’s Ministry of Defence in New Delhi has signed contracts worth Rs 53,866.50 crore for eight Next Generation Corvettes. Garden Reach Shipbuilders in Kolkata will build five and Goa Shipyard three, a major order for Indian shipyards expected to create lakhs of man-days of work.
India’s Cabinet Committee on Security in New Delhi has approved a project worth over Rs 40,000 crore for eight Next-Generation Corvettes. Garden Reach Shipbuilders in Kolkata and Goa Shipyard will build the stealth warships, with the first due by 2030, boosting indigenous shipbuilding.
Hindustan Shipyard Limited has signed an MoU with Kakinada Seaports Limited to develop shipbuilding at the port in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, on India’s Bay of Bengal coast. The partners will use and upgrade existing slipways and jetties and explore joint models for major shipbuilding projects.
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