Goa Shipyard

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Goa Shipyard Limited
Company type Public Sector Undertaking
Industry Defence Ship building
Founded1957 as Estaleiros Navais de Goa
Headquarters
Vasco da Gama, Goa
Key people
Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay
(Chairman & MD)
Products Frigates
Offshore Patrol Vessels
Patrol boat
Berthing pontoon
Tugboat
Pollution Control Vessel
Fast attack craft
Survey vessel
Powership
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹2,850.60 crore (US$340 million) (2025) [1]
Increase2.svg₹378.64 crore (US$45 million) (2025) [1]
Increase2.svg₹288.44 crore (US$34 million) (2025) [1]
Total assets Increase2.svg₹7,335.99 crore (US$870 million) (2025) [1]
Total equity Increase2.svg₹1,620.58 crore (US$190 million) (2025) [1]
Number of employees
Increase2.svg 1386 (2025) [1]
Website Goa Shipyard

Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) is a public sector undertaking for defence ship building located on the West Coast of India at Vasco da Gama, Goa. It was established in 1957, originally by the colonial government of the Portuguese in India as the "Estaleiros Navais de Goa", [2] to build barges to be used in Goa's growing mining industry, which took off after the establishment of India's blockade of Goa in 1955. In the wake of Portugal's defeat and unconditional surrender to India following the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa, it was requisitioned to manufacture warships for the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.

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GSL is undergoing a modernisation of its yard to adapt to the latest technology in shipbuilding. To this purpose it is negotiating with well-known shipbuilders for an arrangement to collaborate. To date it has built 167 vessels, including barges, tugs, landing craft, offshore patrol vessels and other vessels for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard and for export to countries like Yemen. [3] Goa Shipyard unlike Cochin Shipyard and Hindustan Shipyard cannot manufacture big vessels of capacity above 15,000 DWT, the average Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) capacity of a ship worldwide is around 60,000 to 80,000 DWT.

A new slipway has been commissioned to take up major repair jobs of ships in the dry dock area. A damage control simulator and two double boom level luffing cranes for heavy lifting have been constructed. [3]

Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use: [4]

Landing craft Mark II

Saryu class offshore patrol vessel

Vikram class offshore patrol vessel

Samar class offshore patrol vessel

Tarantul I class missile corvette (Veer class)

Sarojini Naidu class extra fast patrol vessel

Samarth class Offshore Patrol Vessel

GSL class Pollution Control Vessel

Sailing vessels

In 1997, GSL built the three-masted barque INS Tarangini for use as a sail training ship for the Indian Navy.A sister ship, INS Sudarshini was also built in 2011. Both ships are based with the Southern Naval Command in Kochi.

Future ships

GSL has been nominated to build the following class of ships for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard:

Talwar-class frigates

GSL is building two Talwar-class frigates in collaboration with Russia's United Ship Building. [10] The two vessels were launched in July 2024 and March 2025, respectively. The first is expected to be delivered in 2026. [11] [12]

Fast Patrol Boats for Indian Army

GSL has bagged an Order of Rs.65 Crore from Indian Army to build 12 fast patrol boats for the surveillance and patrolling at large water bodies. The First Vessel is expected to be delivered by July end of 2021. [13]

Floating Dry Dock

A 4,000 ton floating dock constructed by Goa Shipyard was acquired by the Sri Lanka Navy as part of a grant from India, to facilitate repair and maintenance of larger fleet units based at Trincomalee instead of having to depend dry dock facilities in Colombo. [14] The dock is classified by the Indian Register of Shipping which is the first defence-export project for the classification soceity. It was launched on 19 February 2026. [15]

Other products

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Annual Statement 2024-25 ".
  2. ↑ "Chapter-5". Archived from the original on 1 November 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Goa Shipyard Ltd". Global Security.Org. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  4. ↑ "Ships built by Goa Shipyard Limited". Goa Shipyard. Archived from the original on 29 November 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  5. ↑ "Mk.2 & Mk.3 Landing Craft". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  6. ↑ "Vikram Class". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  7. ↑ "Samar Class". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  8. ↑ "Veer (Tarantul 1) Class". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  9. ↑ "Extra Fast Patrol Vessel". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  10. ↑ "Defence ministry clears Goa Shipyard Limted to build frigates". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "First indigenous frigate Triput launched by Goa Shipyard Limited". ANI . 23 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  12. ↑ "Second Frigate of Project 1135.6 built by GSL launched" (Press release). Press Information Bureau. 22 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  13. ↑ Newton Sequeira (15 June 2021). "Goa Shipyard Limited to deliver first boat to Army for Pangong Tso patrol by July". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  14. ↑ "Four pacts with India compromise Sri Lanka's sovereignty". ceylontoday.lk. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "Indian Register of Shipping's Overseas Defence Project with Sri Lankan Navy". The Maritime Executive. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
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