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27 Aug

GRSE to invest over Rs 2,600 crore in West Bengal to develop three shipbuilding facilities

Kolkata, Aug 23 (IANS) Public sector shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Limited will invest more than Rs 2,600 crore in West Bengal to develop and upgrade three shipbuilding facilities, its Chairman and Managing Director Commodore P.R. Hari (Retd.) said on Sunday. In an exclusive interaction with IANS, Hari said the company plans to invest around Rs 2,670 crore across three facilities in the state as part of its expansion programme. The investment will include the development of a new standalone shipyard at Raichak in South 24 Parganas district, where GRSE plans to build large vessels. The company will…

29 Aug

VP Dhankhar to launch MDL’s P-17A stealth frigate ‘Mahendragiri’ on Friday

Mumbai, Aug 29, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar will launch the fourth Stealth Frigate of Project-17 Alpha, ‘Mahendragiri’ being built by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) on Sep. 1 in Mumbai, an official said here on Tuesday. The fourth and final ship of the Nilgiri Class being constructed by the MDL, the ‘Mahendragiri’ has been designed by the Indian Navy’s Bureau of Naval Design and shall be fitted with advanced state-of-the-art weapons, sensors, communication facilities and other systems. The first ship in the P-17A ‘Nilgiri’ was launched in Sep. 2019 and is expected to go for sea trials around mid-2024, the…

22 Mar

Desi hull-mounted sonar for Indian Navy’s ASW SWC

Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) The 16 Anti-Submarine Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) being built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd and Cochin Shipyard Ltd (eight each) will have 'desi' hull-mounted sonar. This fact came to light during the launch of INS Androth, second in the series of the eight ASW SWCs being built by GRSE. This totally indigenous sonar has been specially developed for the ASW SWCs, Cmde (retd) P.R. Hari, Chairman and Managing Director, GRSE, said. Earlier in the day, Vice Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, had pointed…

24 Dec

Indigenous Warship building -Marching Towards Self Reliance

India has come a long way since the license production of Leander Class Frigates, and it is a matter of great pride that today we have the capability to design and build any kind of warships including an Aircraft Carrier. It has been an arduous journey beginning with small auxiliary ships to destroyers and stealth frigates, full of learnings in , also full of constraints but the journey has been reasonably successful one. The Corps of constructors ( now known as the Directorate of Naval Architecture ), which was formed in 1954 with 12 officers has now grown to a…

26 Apr

Garden Reach Shipbuilders Commissions Fast Petrol Vehicle “ICGS Priyadarshini”

New Delhi: The First of the Class of 05 Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs), named “ICGS- Priyadarshini” built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata was commissioned at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh today by Additional Director-General Kripa Ram Nautiyal, PTM, TM, CGC (ES), in the gracious presence of Inspector General Sivamani Paramesh, PTM, TM, COMCG (East), Commandant (JG) Mahavir Singh, Commanding Officer, ICGS Priyadarshini. The ceremony was attended by Rear Admiral VK Saxena, IN (Retd), Chairman & Managing Director, GRSE and other senior officials of the Indian Coast Guard and GRSE. The ship ICGS Priyadarshini is the first in the series.…

02 May

Accident at PSU ship-builder GRSE hits operations, company says work not affected

Kolkata/New Delhi: With an accident seriously affecting operations at the state-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) -- which builds ships for the Indian Navy -- the company has launched "an assessment study" to map the extent of damage and has roped in an independent agency to ascertain the reason for the mishap. The accident, which occurred almost a fortnight back on April 17 and had been kept under wraps, saw the collapse of a 250-tonne Goliath crane at the GRSE unit here. Sources aware of the accident claimed the collapsed crane was "beyond repair" and would need to be written-off.…