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The Indian Navy will have a floating dock at Andaman and Nicobar Islands by next year so that it can dock naval ships and submarines up to 8,000 tonnes displacement.
Chief executive and managing director of Larsen and Toubro, vice-Admiral (retd) B Kannan said that the Rs 468 crore floating dock will significantly augment the support infrastructure of the Navy for docking of warships and submarines for repair and refit as the island does not have a dry dock.
Kannan, who was speaking on the sidelines of Indo-US partnership conclave organised by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, said that the Katpuli shipyard already has orders worth Rs 2,000 crore. He said that the shipyard will also be supplying interceptor boats to Coast Guard.
“We have already supplied 20 interceptor boats and the remaining 30 will be supplied to Coast Guard soon,” he said. He also said that the shipyard is building offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for Coast Guard besides designing an elevator for a naval ship, which could lift the helicopter from the hangar and bring it to the dock. However, he denied the technology is meant for an indigenously built aircraft carrier.
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