(a) whether there are enough facilities for repairing of commercial
shipping vessels in the country;
(b) if so, the details of such facilities, location-wise;
(c) whether the Public-Private Partnership model is being introduced
in the port construction sector; and
(d) if so, the details of such projects launched during each of the
last three years and the current year?
MINISTER OF SHIPPING (SHRI G.K. VASAN)
(a)&(b): As per the information furnished by Shipping Corporation of India(SCI),
the commercial ships require repair facilities for running repairs and dry docking
repairs. While the facilities for running repairs are sufficient in most ports,
for dry docking repairs of bigger vessels, they have to depend on foreign shipyards
like Colombo Dockyard, Chinese yards and yards in the Middle and Far East region.
However, some Indian shipyards like the Cochin Shipyard Ltd., Kochi and Western India
Shipyard, Goa have facilities for dry docking repairs. Moreover, Hindustan Shipyard
Ltd, Visakhapatnam and some major private sector shipyards such as M/s Pipavav Defence
and Offshore Engineering Company at Pipava, Gujarat; M/s ABG Shipyard at Dahej, Gujarat
and M/s L&T Shipyard atKattuppalli, Tamilnadu also undertake repair of commercial
shipping vessels in the country.
(c): Yes, Madam.
(d): The details of such projects awarded during each of the last 3years at the Major
Ports are given below:
In the current year , 3 PPP projects have been awarded with capacity of 29.09 MTPA and investment of Rs. 1273.25 crore.
Year No. of Projects Investment Capacity (Rs. In Cr.) (MTPA:million tons per annum) 2010-11 9 3356.65 51.96 2011-12 2 1277.58 19.32 2012-13 13 2274.77 43.18