An hour’s drive north of Chennai, Larsen & Toubro’s shipyard at Kathupalli sprawls over 900 acres, a spacious, modern facility vastly different from the cramped precincts of defence public sector undertaking (DPSU) shipyards like Mazagon Dock Ltd (MDL) and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE).
A fortnight ago, Kathupalli delivered to the navy a Rs 4.68 billion floating dry dock, which is now operationally deployed, repairing naval warships in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Meanwhile, the first of seven offshore patrol vessels that L&T (Larsen & ...
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First Published: Sat, March 24 2018. 20:53 IST
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