PANJIM: The commissioning of the state-of-the-art shiplift facility in Goa Shipyard Ltd has given a boost to its ship repair and shipbuilding activities. The yard has seen docking of 50 vessels since its commissioning on May 2011.
Speaking on the occasion of the 50th docking on October 22, 2013, RAdm (Retd) Vineet Bakhshi, VSM CMD GSL said “There was an upsurge in the ship repair activities in the yard and the company has repaired 49 vessels to date which include Naval and Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessels, Offshore Supply Vessels, AHTS, fishing research vessels, diving support vessels, bulk carriers, barges, yachts, etc.”
This state-of-the-art Shiplift system with dimensions of 120 mts x 25 mts is capable of docking 120 M vessels upto 6000T. The ship transfer system spread over an area of around 13600 sq mtrs can transfer vessels of 6000T capacity from shiplift to hard stand. Significantly, GSL has capacity to dock four ships of 120 m length simultaneously on hard stand at present which can meet the customer demands for dock in emergency repairs. Two additional hard stand areas would be available post completion of modernisation Phase 3A currently underway. This state of the art shiplift & Transfer system installed by M/s Bosch Rexroth B V, The Netherlands is certified by Lloyd’s Register Asia, a classification society of international repute, to a nominal lifting capacity of 6000 tonnes.
CMD said “The modernization plan is a result of a vision of GSL to have a contemporary Shipyard. GSL can now count itself as India’s first Defence Shipyard to be equipped with a modern Shiplift facility for launching and docking of ships”.
