Mazagon Dock to construct floating dry dock with launching facility at Nhava

 

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, which builds ships for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard, has been permitted to construct a floating dry dock with a launching facility at Nhava off the Mumbai coast, it has been reported. The proposal was cleared by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) at its meeting held in July. The proposed dry dock will comprise six blocks, which are being constructed at Bharuch in Gujarat. They will be transported to the company’s yard in Nhava and assembled into a floating, 180-metre-long dry dock, occupying an area of 13,585 square metres, offsetting the lack of land-based infrastructure for shipbuilding activities. Tidal circulation in the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) navigation channel, via which ships will travel between the floating dock and the sea, is also relatively strong, as per a report.

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