Facilities
GRSE has ship building facilities in Kolkata and Ranchi.
It has a large Computer Aided Design (CAD) center for ship modeling and design. There are four workshops for plate preparation and steel fabrication.
GRSE has a dry dock for ships up to 26,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT). It has a building berth and two slipways for hull construction. It has a covered all-weather non-tidal wet basin for fitting-out medium and small ships and another fitting-out complex for ships with three berths alongside. In addition, it has two river jetties for berthing smaller vessels up to 60 metres (200 ft) in length. GRSE has engine repair and overhaul facilities in Ranchi.
On 1 July 2006, GRSE acquired the loss-making Rajabagan Dockyard (RBD) of Central Inland Water Transport Corporation (CIWTC). RBD's facilities with its 600 metres (2,000 ft) waterfront helped alleviate some of GRSE’s space constraints and increase its production capacity.
As of 2011, the shipyard is undergoing a 5.3 billion (US$96.46 million) upgrade program, expected to be completed by March 2012.
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