New ship-building facility inaugurated in Howrah, to serve National Waterways sector

By Express News Service

KOCHI: A newly-built ship-building facility of Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Ltd (HCSL) was devoted to the nation at Nazirgunge, Howrah, West Bengal by Sarbananda Sonowal, minister of port, transport and waterways & Ayush.

The Rs 180 crore facility, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cochin Shipyard Ltd, a PSE beneath the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, is predicted to offer an ideal impetus to water transport connectivity to the North-Eastern states.

Shantanu Thakur, Minister of State of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, was current on the launch event, held on Tuesday.

Sonowal stated the Hooghly Cochin Shipyard will present a lift in assembly the necessities of recent era, excessive know-how, greener vessels to propel additional development in inland water transport alongside the nationwide waterways. “The yard will not only enable economic development in the close region but will also provide direct and indirect employment as well as the development of the MSMEs and ancillaries,” he stated.

The Union minister stated HCSL will observe the footsteps of Cochin Shipyard Limited to hold on and additional construct up on CSL’s wonderful legacy in creating an Atmanirbhar Bharat as envisioned by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and in addition in direction of the creation of a high-quality, globally acknowledged, cleaner and greener ship-building ecosystem,” Sonowal stated.

HCSL was arrange reviving the two-century-old HDPEL shipbuilding yard at Nazirgunge and due to this fact amalgamates its wealthy and lengthy shipbuilding heritage with the excellent experience of CSL, which has confirmed expertise in designing, constructing and delivering high-quality complicated vessels to shoppers all through the world. “This is an example of huge contribution to the nation by reviving a sick unit through another PSE and converting it into a modern shipyard,” he stated, in a launch right here.
 
HCSL facility is strategically situated with each slipway launching (as much as 80 meters) and aspect launching services (as much as 110 metres) in addition to outfitting jetties.

National Waterway-1 covers Ganga–Bhagirathi–Hooghly for a size of 1,620 km protecting the states of UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and NW-2 covers West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Meghalaya. Jal Marg Vikas challenge is a Government of India initiative for capability augmentation of transport and navigation on the nationwide waterways No 1. This would allow industrial navigation of 1500-2000 ton vessels in Phase 1. The improvement of the nationwide waterways will present enterprise alternatives for cargo actions, passenger vessel development and operations, cruise operations, ship repairs and so forth. Further, beneath Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, there is a chance to construct deep sea fishing vessels at HCSL.
 
HCSL goals to place itself as a lead participant in inland waterway vessel development within the nation. It will serve the inland water transport sector by the development of inland water vessels for the transport of males & materials alongside & throughout the National Waterways, primarily Ganga (NW1) & Brahmaputra (NW2). HCSL may even help within the indigenous development of inexperienced vessels together with Hybrid and Pure electrical operated vessels, non-conventional fuels and gas cells know-how operated vessels, coastal and inland river vessels, river cruise vessels, river container vessels, LNG and Methanol gas vessels and barges. HCSL can present complete help to shoppers by not solely setting up technologically superior vessels but additionally by offering life cycle help for the upkeep and maintenance of the vessels.

The occasion was attended by Prasun Banerjee, Member of Parliament, Madhu S Nair, Chairman HCSL & CMD CSL, and Directors of CSL, amongst others.

KOCHI: A newly-built ship-building facility of Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Ltd (HCSL) was devoted to the nation at Nazirgunge, Howrah, West Bengal by Sarbananda Sonowal, minister of port, transport and waterways & Ayush.

The Rs 180 crore facility, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cochin Shipyard Ltd, a PSE beneath the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, is predicted to offer an ideal impetus to water transport connectivity to the North-Eastern states.

Shantanu Thakur, Minister of State of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, was current on the launch event, held on Tuesday.

Sonowal stated the Hooghly Cochin Shipyard will present a lift in assembly the necessities of recent era, excessive know-how, greener vessels to propel additional development in inland water transport alongside the nationwide waterways. “The yard will not only enable economic development in the close region but will also provide direct and indirect employment as well as the development of the MSMEs and ancillaries,” he stated.

The Union minister stated HCSL will observe the footsteps of Cochin Shipyard Limited to hold on and additional construct up on CSL’s wonderful legacy in creating an Atmanirbhar Bharat as envisioned by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and in addition in direction of the creation of a high-quality, globally acknowledged, cleaner and greener ship-building ecosystem,” Sonowal stated.

HCSL was arrange reviving the two-century-old HDPEL shipbuilding yard at Nazirgunge and due to this fact amalgamates its wealthy and lengthy shipbuilding heritage with the excellent experience of CSL, which has confirmed expertise in designing, constructing and delivering high-quality complicated vessels to shoppers all through the world. “This is an example of huge contribution to the nation by reviving a sick unit through another PSE and converting it into a modern shipyard,” he stated, in a launch right here.
 
HCSL facility is strategically situated with each slipway launching (as much as 80 meters) and aspect launching services (as much as 110 metres) in addition to outfitting jetties.

National Waterway-1 covers Ganga–Bhagirathi–Hooghly for a size of 1,620 km protecting the states of UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and NW-2 covers West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Meghalaya. Jal Marg Vikas challenge is a Government of India initiative for capability augmentation of transport and navigation on the nationwide waterways No 1. This would allow industrial navigation of 1500-2000 ton vessels in Phase 1. The improvement of the nationwide waterways will present enterprise alternatives for cargo actions, passenger vessel development and operations, cruise operations, ship repairs and so forth. Further, beneath Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, there is a chance to construct deep sea fishing vessels at HCSL.
 
HCSL goals to place itself as a lead participant in inland waterway vessel development within the nation. It will serve the inland water transport sector by the development of inland water vessels for the transport of males & materials alongside & throughout the National Waterways, primarily Ganga (NW1) & Brahmaputra (NW2). HCSL may even help within the indigenous development of inexperienced vessels together with Hybrid and Pure electrical operated vessels, non-conventional fuels and gas cells know-how operated vessels, coastal and inland river vessels, river cruise vessels, river container vessels, LNG and Methanol gas vessels and barges. HCSL can present complete help to shoppers by not solely setting up technologically superior vessels but additionally by offering life cycle help for the upkeep and maintenance of the vessels.

The occasion was attended by Prasun Banerjee, Member of Parliament, Madhu S Nair, Chairman HCSL & CMD CSL, and Directors of CSL, amongst others.