Hindu Business line has a nice article on the current status of ship-building industry in India. The existing ship builders in India are:

  • ABG Shipyard
  • Pipavav Shipyard
  • Bharati Shipyard
  • Cochin Shipyard
  • Hindustan Shipyard
  • Alcock Ashdown
  • Tebma Shipyard
  • L & T Hazira

Some of the new entrants are:

  • Ruia group
  • Shipping corp. of India
  • Mercator Mech Marine
  • Goodearth maritime
  • Adani group

With respect to Orissa, Bharati shipyard together with Apeejay plan to have a shipyard in Dhamara. Following is a report in today’s Dharitri about the land acquisition effort for that. (The last sentence that got cut says: This project is to start in 2008 and is scheduled to be completed by 2016.)