Tribune News Service
Mumbai, June 14
A new warship building facility will soon come up outside Mumbai with the Maharashtra Government fast-tracking allotment of 30 hectares of land to the state-owned Mazgaon Docks Ltd (MDL), according to sources here.
Officials said the land at Nhava in Navi Mumbai across the Mumbai harbour which was reclaimed in the 1970s was originally earmarked for port-related activities.
“It has, however, remained in the state government’s possession all these years,” an official said. Paperwork for transferring the land from the state government to MDL was now almost complete, they said.
Sources said MDL would be required to obtain environmental clearances after which it might start construction of facilities required for building warships at Nhava.
MDL has been facing severe capacity constraints which hampered the public sector enterprise from timely execution of orders received from the Navy and the Coast Guard. The company has an order book of more than Rs 53,000 crore in hand.
According to MDL, without the greenfield shipyard its ability to undertake projects would have been severely limited. Among the orders MDL presently has include five Scorpene-class submarines, four P-15B destroyers, and four P-17A stealth frigates for the Navy.
Yard to have docks, ship-lift, workshops
The planned new yard will have a ship-lift, wet basin, workshops, stores and buildings and a ship-repair facility suitable for construction and repair of warships and commercial ships with larger dimensions. — Mazgaon Docks Ltd, state-owned firm
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