Bharati Shipyard’s greenfield facility in Mangalore will have to wait for another eight months before it sees the light of day.
But company confident of meeting delivery schedules
MUMBAI: Bharati Shipyard’s greenfield facility in Mangalore will have to wait for another eight months before it sees the light of day.
The project, which was to kickstart by 2007-end, is facing delays over environment clearances. It is now expected to start production by September this year.
For the probable impact of shipbuilding activity on environment, every shipbuilding unit requires clearances from the forest ministry, environment ministry and the pollution control board before it can start production.
The company, which now plans to speed up the process of shipyard integration, is however, confident of meeting production schedules.
P C Kapoor, managing director, Bharati Shipyard, said: “We have received all clearances and will now deploy extra machinery and resources in Mangalore to bridge the time lapse for production and the delivery schedules will be met.”
The Mangalore shipyard, waiting to start production, has the capacity to build vessels of up to 60,000 tonnes, including rigs used in oil and gas exploration. Currently, the facility has 15 offshore ships on order totalling to Rs1,200 crore to be delivered by 2009-2010.
Bharati also has the country’s first rig-building order from Great Offshore to be built at the Mangalore shipyard. However, due to delay in production, the rig building was transferred to the company’s latest greenfield venture at Dabhol in Maharashtra, which had the land and environment clearances in place.
Kapoor said since Dabhol had all requisites in place, the shipyard started production there first. “Although the rig order was transferred due to the delay in clearances, it benefits as Dabhol has a deep-water draft closer to the jetty, which is good for rig-building,” Kapoor said.
Owing to the deep draft, the company further plans to shift rig building entirely to Dabhol and Mangalore would see orders for other very large offshore vessels. With a total order book of Rs4,600 crore, Bharati is currently in the process of deploying the machinery from UK-based Swan Hunter shipyard, which it acquired last year in Managlore and Dabhol. It is expected to be completed by September 2008.
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