Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) (IAST: Majhagānv Dawk Limiṭeḍ), formerly called Mazagon Dock Limited,[3] is a shipyard situated in Mazagaon, Mumbai. It manufactures warships and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling. It also builds tankers, cargo bulk carriers, passenger ships and ferries.[4][1]
Company type
1934[1]
Ship design
Ship building
Ship repair
₹7,827.18 crore (US$940 million) (FY2023)[2]
₹1,429.33 crore (US$170 million) (FY2023)[2]
₹1,070.72 crore (US$130 million) (FY2023)[2]
₹28,880.57 crore (US$3.5 billion) (FY2023)[2]
₹4,177.56 crore (US$500 million) (FY2023)[2]
Government of India (84.83%)
4972 (2021-22)
Shipbuilding, Submarine & Heavy Engineering
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders has been awarded "Navratna" status by the Department of Public Enterprises.It is the country's 18th PSU to receive this designation.[5]
MDL is a public sector undertaking managed by the Ministry of Defence, with the Government of India holding an 84.83% stake. Its shipbuilding segment has indigenously built stealth frigates, destroyers, guided-missile destroyers, corvettes, landing platform docks, missile boats, patrol boats, trailing suction hopper dredgers, cargo ships, cargo-passenger ships, platform supply vessels, Voith tugs and BOP vessels, while its submarine segment has built conventional submarines and stealth submarines. Both segments have also performed repair and refit activities.[6][7][8]
History[edit]
The shipyards of MDL were established in the 18th century. Ownership of the yards passed through entities including the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and the British-India Steam Navigation Company. Eventually, 'Mazagon Dock Limited' was registered as a public company in 1934. The shipyard was nationalised in 1960 and is now a public sector undertaking of the Government of India.[1]
Vice Admiral Narayan Prasad, AVSM, NM, IN (Retd), is the Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited. The retired naval officer took over his current position on 30 December 2019.[9]
Activities[edit]
The activities at the yard are shipbuilding, submarine building, and fabrication of offshore structures. It has manufacturing facilities in Mumbai and Nhava.
The yard has the capability to build warships, submarines, and merchant ships up to 30,000 deadweight tons (DWT).[10] It can fabricate wellhead platforms, process and production platforms, and jack-up rigs for oil exploration.
Commercial projects[edit]
Offshore platforms[edit]
MDL builds offshore oil drilling platforms. It operates facilities at Alcock, Mumbai, and Nhava Yard for the construction of platforms with wellhead, water injection and production separator and glycol process capabilities, as well as jackup rigs, SBMs and other offshore structures.[18]
Repair and maintenance jobs on offshore rigs are undertaken at Alcock; jackets up to 80 metres (260 ft) length and 2,200-tonne weight can be constructed. At Nhava, jackets up to 80 metres (260 ft) length and 2,300-tonne weight, main decks up to 550-tonne weight and helipads of 160-tonne weight can be constructed.
The yard builds specialist vessels able to clean oil spills and fight fires on offshore drilling platforms.
A welding training school develops and maintains welding techniques and procedures.