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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited<br />
| logo = Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Ltd Logo.png<br />
| logo_size = <br />
| caption = <br />
| type = [[Subsidiary]]<br />
| industry = [[Shipbuilding]]<br />
| foundation = {{start date and years ago|df=y|1819}}<br />
| location_city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| area_served = India<br />
| key_people = Shri Madhu S Nair <br/>{{small|(Chairman & [[Non-Executive Director]])}} <br> Shri Shekhar Chakravarty<br> {{small|(CEO)}}<br />
| products = [[RORO ferries in India|Ro-Ro Vessel]]; [[Ro-Pax]]; Water Metros; [[Water ambulance|Ambulance Boats]]; [[Survey vessel|Survey Class]]; [[Patrol boat|OPV Class]]; [[Bangaram Class]]; [[Fast attack craft|FAC Class]]; FBOP; Tuna Liner<br />
| services = [[Naval architecture|Ship design]]<br/>[[Shipbuilding]]<br/>[[Shipbuilding#Ship repair industry|Ship repair]]<br />
| parent = {{ubl|[[Cochin Shipyard|Cochin Shipyard Ltd]](100%)}}<br />
| location_country = [[India]]<br />
| homepage = {{url|hooghlycsl.com}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited''' is a shipyard at [[Howrah]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cochin Shipyard acquires of balance 26 pc of shares in Hooghly Cochin Shipyard |url=https://www.aninews.in/news/business/cochin-shipyard-acquires-of-balance-26-pc-of-shares-in-hooghly-cochin-shipyard20191102130956/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=ANI News |language=en}}</ref> The company has two units located at [[Salkia]] and Nazirganj on the bank of [[Hooghly River|River Hooghly]] in the city of Howrah (in the state of West Bengal, India). It manufactures various types of vessels, dredgers, floating drydock, [[oil spill|oil pollution]] control vessels, passenger vessels, etc.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Cochin Shipyard Ltd revives Hooghly Dock facility |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/cochin-shipyard-ltd-revives-hooghly-dock-facility/cid/1880554 |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=The Telegraph|location=India}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Minister Sarbananda Sonowal dedicated Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited to nation |url=https://www.psuconnect.in/news/hooghly-cochin-shipyard-limited-dedicated-to-nation/33904 |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=psuconnect.in |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Salkia Work ==<br />
Salkia Work is one of the two units of the Hooghly Cochin Shipyard. The unit covers a 10-acre area. Salkia Work has one dry dock facility available along with 2 building berths. It manufactures a maximum size of vessels of 15,000 DWT.<br />
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==Nazirgunge Work==<br />
Nazirgunge Work is spread over an area of 19.60 acres. It has 2 building berths, workshops and administrative building and manufacturing maximum size of vessels of 15,000 DWT.<br />
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== Modernization==<br />
The Government of India planned to divest its majority stake in Hooghly Dock & Port Engineers Limited (HDPEL). Therefore, with a vision of reviving HDPEL the government brought in [[Cochin Shipyard]] as a strategic partner.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Press Trust of India |date=2020-02-02 |title=Cochin Shipyard acquires 100% stake in two dry docks of West Bengal |work=Business Standard India |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/cochin-shipyard-gets-100pc-control-of-2-dry-docks-of-kolkata-120020200641_1.html |access-date=2022-07-13}}</ref><br />
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After getting acquired by Cochin Shipyard Limited, the company went on to modernize its shipbuilding facility at Nazirgunge, West Bengal at an estimated project cost of ₹169.76 crore, as per a document of the Ministry of Shipping. The modernized facility of Nazirgunge has been made well equipped for the construction of various types of vessels like Ro-Ro vessels, river-sea cargo vessels for bulk, liquids, containers, passenger vessels and other watercraft for the inland waterways.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cochin Shipyard Bengal unit by June 2021 |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/cochin-shipyard-bengal-unit-by-june-2021/cid/1810928 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=The Telegraph|location=India}}</ref><br />
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CSL CMD Madhu S Nair on inaugural ceremony of refurbished Nazirgunge facility said that CSL at a later stage has plans to take up the modernisation of the facility at Salkia and turn it into a repair and refurbishment unit for river vessels. CSL already operates two ship repair unit for larger vessels at Kolkata Port's Netaji Subhas Docks.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 August 2022 |title=Csl Opens New Facility at Hooghly |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/csl-opens-new-facility-at-hooghly/articleshow/93605916.cms |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-05 |title=KoPT ties up with Cochin Shipyard to set up ship repairing facilities |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/kopt-ties-cochin-shipyard-set-ship-repairing-facilities-1502617504.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=The Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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To provide a major boost to the economic growth in the North-Eastern region, the Inland Water Authority of India and Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited signed an MoU for setting up the new 'Ship Repair Facility' at Pandu.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jayaram |first1=S |last2=Sivaprasad |first2=K |last3=Nandakumar |first3=C G |date=2015-12-10 |title=Guidance Plan for Ship Recycling Based on Disassembly Concept |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3940/rina.icsotin15.2015.09 |journal=ICSOT India: Coastal & Inland Shipping 2015 |pages=63–72 |publisher=RINA |doi=10.3940/rina.icsotin15.2015.09|isbn=9781909024496 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of shipbuilders and shipyards in India]]<br />
* [[Cochin Shipyard|Cochin Shipyard Limited, Cochin]]<br />
* [[Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers|Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata]]<br />
* [[Titagarh Wagons]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
* [[Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders]], [[Mumbai]]<br />
* [[Hindustan Shipyard]], [[Visakhapatnam]]<br />
* [[Shalimar Works (1980) Ltd|Shalimar Works (1980) Ltd, Howrah]]<br />
* [[Goa Shipyard]]<br />
* [[Inland Waterways Authority of India]]<br />
* [[Kolkata Port|Shyama Prasad Mukerjee Port]], [[Kolkata]]<br />
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