Colombo Dockyard

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Colombo Dockyard PLC
Type Public
CSE:  DOCK.N0000
ISIN LK0047N00007
Industry
FoundedAugust 1, 1974;49 years ago (1974-08-01)
Headquarters,
Sri Lanka
Key people
  • Hideaki Tanaka (Chairman)
  • D. V. Abeysinghe (Managing Director/CEO)
Products
Services
RevenueIncrease2.svg LKR9,211 million (2021)
Increase2.svg LKR318 million (2021)
Increase2.svg LKR171 million (2021)
Total assets Increase2.svg LKR24,081 million (2021)
Total equity Increase2.svg LKR7,399 million (2021)
Owner
Number of employees
3,000 (2021)
Parent Onomichi Dockyard Company Ltd
Subsidiaries
  • Dockyard General Engineering Services (Pvt) Ltd
  • Ceylon Shipping Agency (Pte) Ltd, Singapore
  • Dockyard Total Solutions (pvt) Ltd
Website www.cdl.lk
Footnotes /references
[1]

Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) is a ship building company in Sri Lanka and it is based in Colombo. It has built both military and civilian vessels for both local and overseas clients.

Contents

History

Colombo Dockyard, established its operations in 1974 and is one of Sri Lanka's engineering facilities in the business of ship repair, ship building, heavy engineering and offshore engineering. It is situated within the Port of Colombo, thus having the benefits of a deep water harbor. [2]

Facilities and operation

Greatship Anjali built by Colombo Dockyard Greatship Anjali IMO 9408425 (11716175476).jpg
Greatship Anjali built by Colombo Dockyard
Lakshadweep built by Colombo Dockyard Lakshadweep Sea.jpg
Lakshadweep built by Colombo Dockyard

Colombo Dockyard operates four graving drydocks, the largest one with a capacity of 125,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) as well as repair berth facilities. It is accredited with the ISO 9001-2015 quality certification by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance. [3]

Colombo Dockyard has operated in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Japan since 1993- the collaboration's twenty-year anniversary was celebrated on March 26, 2013. [4]

In 2020 the Colombo Dockyard built Eco bulk carriers for Norwegian Misje Eco Bulk company, Misje subsidiary of Kåre Misje & Co. [5] Colombo Dockyard also built Buoy Tender Vessels to sell to ports of Iraq through Toyota Tsusho Corporation of Japan. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) helped with this project. [6]

Known ship classes built

The following ships were known to be made by CD: [7]

Customers

Military clients

International clients

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  2. Port of Colombo
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