Cochin Shipyard (CSL) is the largest ship building yard in India. It is located at Kochi, Kerala. The shipyard is named after the city of Kochi, which was formerly known as Cochin. Small shipyard in Klaksvík (Faroe Islands), reparing fishing vessels Dockyards and shipyards are places which repair and build ships. ... Kochi (Malayalam: കൊച്ചി []), formerly known as Cochin, is the largest city in the state of Kerala, India, and one of the principal seaports in the country. ...   (IPA: ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of south-western India. ...

The shipyard also trains graduate engineers in marine engineering.^{[citation needed]} Around a hundred students are trained each year.

History

Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in the year 1972 as a fully owned Government of India company. In the last three decades the company has emerged as a forerunner in the Indian shipbuilding & Ship repair industry. This yard can build and repair the largest vessels in India.^[1] It can build ships up to 1,10,000 DWT and repair ships up to 1,25,0000 DWT. The yard has delivered two of India’s largest double hull Aframax tankers each of 95 000 DWT . CSL has secured shipbuilding orders from internationally renowned companies from Europe and Middle East and is nominated to build the country’s first indigenously built Aircraft carrier. The Government of India (Hindi: Bharat Sarkar), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of India. ... Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo capacity of a ship. ... A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ... An Aframax ship is an oil tanker with capacity between 80,000 dwt and 120,000 dwt. ... Tanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

Ship repairing

The shipyard commenced ship repair operations in the year 1982 and has undertaken repairs of all types of ships including upgradation of ships of oil exploration industry as well as periodical lay up repairs and life extension of ships of Navy, UTL, Coast Guard, Fisheries and Cochin Port Trust besides merchant ships of SCI & ONGC. The yard has, over the years, developed adequate capabilities to handle complex and sophisticated repair jobs. Oil exploration is the search by petroleum geologists for hydrocarbon deposits beneath the Earths surface. ... The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. ... Cochin Port Trust is a body of the Government of Kerala that manages the Indian port of Kochi. ... SCI may stand for: Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Serial Communication Interface Service Civil International Sierras Creative Interpreter Society of Chemical Industry Spinal cord injury Structure Conservation Index Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) String Cheese...

Upcoming ventures

Recently Cochin Shipyard has bagged major repair orders from ONGC. The order for major repairs of three rigs viz Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Sagar Vijay, Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Sagar Bhushan and Jack Up Rig (JUR) Sagar Kiran, Trident-II,and dredger Nehru shatabdi of cochin port trust was secured by CSL. ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited) (incorporated on June 23, 1993) is a public sector petroleum company in India. ...

See also

• Indian Navy
• Mazagon Dock Limited
• Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
• Goa Shipyard Limited

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Notes

1. ^ List of ship building centres in India. Shipping Ministry of India. Retrieved on 2006-05-23.