Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places where ships are repaired and built. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial construction. The terms are routinely used interchangeably, in part because the evolution of dockyards and shipyards has often caused them to change or merge roles.

Countries with large shipbuilding industries include Singapore, South Korea, Australia, Japan, China, Germany, Romania, Turkey, Poland and Croatia. The shipbuilding industry tends to be more fragmented in Europe than in Asia. In European countries there are a greater number of small companies, compared to the fewer, larger companies in the shipbuilding countries of Asia.

Most shipbuilders in the United States are privately owned, the largest being Huntington Ingalls Industries, a multibillion-dollar defense contractor, and the oldest family owned shipyard being Colonna's Shipyard in Norfolk, VA. The publicly owned shipyards in the US are Naval facilities providing basing, support and repair.

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Cochin Shipyard

Coordinates: 9°57′17″N 76°17′17″E / 9.954585°N 76.28814°E / 9.954585; 76.28814

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) is one of the major shipbuilding and maintenance facility in India. It is part of a line of maritime-related facilities in the port-city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India.

Of the services provided by the shipyard are building platform supply vessels and double-hulled oil tankers. Presently it is building the first indigenous aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy.

Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in 1972 as a Government of India company, with the first phase of facilities coming online in 1982. The yard has facilities to build vessels up to 1.1 million tons and repair vessels up to 1.25 million tons, the largest such facilities in India. In August 2012, the Government of India announced plans of divestment to raise capital of 15,000 million rupees (₹1,500 crore) for further expansion through an Initial Public Offering (IPO]) towards the end of the fiscal year.

Western Marine Shipyard

Western Marine Shipyards is a Bangladeshi shipbuilding company. It was founded in 2000 and have since become the second largest Bangladeshi shipbuilder in terms of number of vessels manufactured. It focuses on designing and building vessels for private customers in addition to the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation. The firm exports completed ships and vessels to several different European countries, particularly Germany and Denmark.

Western Marine Shipyard, known as the leading shipbuilder of Bangladesh. The mother company Western Marine Services was initially formed by a group of marine professionals specialized in ship repairing & export of marine supplies. The major intention of the company’s founders was to develop a cluster of technological excellence to meet global demand of maritime industry. Gradually the company developed as a shipbuilder with its own shipyard in the eastern bank of river Karnaphuli in Chittagong in the year 2000 over a land of 1.5 acre for building inland vessels.