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Most of the wagon manufacturers were established by the British. Some of these
companies are Burn Standard Company, Braithwaite, Texmaco, Jessop & Company.
Hindustan Engineering and Industries Limited (HEIL) is one of the largest manufacturers
of freight cars and wagons for transport of containers. Titagarh Wagon
Limited is a large manufacturer of wagons, bridges, prefabricated shelters and
other such fabricated metal products for railways and defence sectors. With private
players allowed entry into freight movement using Railways, and with the cost of
road transport increasing with the rising price of oil, there is a shift in favour of
rail transport and hence the railway wagon manufacturing industry is expected to
witness strong growth
Ship-building
India has a very large ship building industry. There are approximately 28 established
shipyards in the country. However, 10 shipyards dominate the industry, seven of
which are PSEs and the remaining 3 are privately owned. In the previous century
the industry has witnessed a decline, and at present, India builds very few vessels
for export and fulfils only 10 per cent of the needs of the shipping industry. A brief
profile of some of the ship building activities is given below.
Largest shipyards
Shipyard under the Ministry of Surface Transport – Cochin in South India has one
of the largest shipyards in India and also has some of the most advanced technologies
for fabrication of metal products. The shipyard has a technical collaboration
with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan. The Cochin shipyard manufactures
ships and tankers for internationally renowned companies in Europe and Middle
East Asia. The shipyard has the distinction of having the largest hull fabrication
shop in India.
Shipyard under the Ministry of Defence – Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), Mumbai,
is one of the leading shipbuilding and offshore fabrication yards in India, employing
over 10 000 workers. After its takeover by the GOI in 1960, Mazagon Dock grew
rapidly to become the premier war-shipbuilding yard in India, producing sophisticated
warships and offshore structures. It has grown from a single unit, small ship
repairing company into a multi-unit and multi-product company, with significant
rise in production, use of modern technology and sophistication of products. The
company’s current portfolio of designs spans a wide range of products for both domestic
and overseas clients. The yard has designed and constructed surface comba-
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