SHIPBUILDING IN INDIA INCREASING
Optimism regarding the future of the ship and dock building industry in India was expressed by Mr J. A. Van Heel, general manager of the Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Construction company, Calcutta, which has just completed in Bombay the biggest floating dock east of Suez. It is capable of docking a 50,000 ton ship. The dock has been made at the British Admiralty’s order, costing £61,120,000 sterling. Owing to India’s limited marine construction facilities the hull steel work was fabricated in Calcutta, while the dock, in two halves, was erected in Bombay. The work has taken twenty-seven months, using 20,000 tons of steel—all Indian made. Another indication of the progress that is being made is an announcement that the Vizagapatam Yard has laid the keels of two 8000 ton vessels.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 3
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134SHIPBUILDING IN INDIA INCREASING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 3
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