Goa Shipyard

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Goa Shipyard Limited
Company typePublic Sector Undertaking
IndustryDefence Ship building
Founded1957 as Estaleiros Navais de Goa
Headquarters
Key people
Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay
(Chairman & MD)
ProductsFrigates
Offshore Patrol Vessels
Patrol boat
Berthing pontoon
Tugboat
Pollution Control Vessel
Fast attack craft
Survey vessel
Powership
RevenueIncrease 2,850.60 crore (US$340 million) (2025)[1]
Increase 378.64 crore (US$45 million) (2025)[1]
Increase 288.44 crore (US$34 million) (2025)[1]
Total assetsIncrease 7,335.99 crore (US$870 million) (2025)[1]
Total equityIncrease 1,620.58 crore (US$190 million) (2025)[1]
Number of employees
Increase 1386 (2025)[1]
WebsiteGoa 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.

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

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

Landing craft Mark II

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  • L34 – commissioned 28 January 1980
  • L33 – 1 December 1980
  • L35 – 11 December 1983
  • L36 – 18 July 1986
  • L37 – 18 October 1986
  • L38 – 10 December 1986
  • L39 – 25 March 1987[5]

Saryu class offshore patrol vessel

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  • INS Saryu (P54)
  • INS Sunayna (P58)
  • SLNS Sayurala (P623)
  • SLNS Sindurala (P624)

Vikram class offshore patrol vessel

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  • CGS Varad (40) – 19 July 1990
  • CGS Varaha (41) – 19 July 1990[6]

Samar class offshore patrol vessel

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  • CGS Samar (42) – 14 February 1996
  • CGS Sangram (43) – 29 March 1997
  • CGS Sarang (44) – 21 June 1999
  • CGS Sagar (45) – 3 November 2003[7]

Tarantul I class missile corvette

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  • INS Vinash (K47) – 20 November 1993
  • INS Vidyut (K48) – 16 January 1995
  • INS Prahar (K98) – 1 March 1997 Lost at sea on 22 April 2006[8]
  • INS Pralaya (K91) – Missile Corvette 18 December 2002

Extra fast patrol vessel

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  • CGS Sarojini Naidu (229) – 11 November 2002
  • CGS Durgabai Deshmukh (230) – 29 April 2003
  • CGS Kasturba Gandhi (231) – 28 October 2005
  • CGS Aruna Asaf Ali (232) – 28 January 2006
  • CGS Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (233) – 28 April 2006[9]

In 1997, GSL built the three-masted barque INS Tarangini for use as a training ship for the Indian Navy.

Offshore Patrol Vessel

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Future ships

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

Future Indian minehunter class

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GSL will jointly build twelve Mine Counter-Measure Vessels in collaboration with a ToT partner selected as per procedure.[10]

Talwar class frigates

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GSL will build two Talwar-class frigates in collaboration with Russia's United Ship Building.[11]

Fast Patrol Boats For Indian Army

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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.[12]

Future Pollution Control vessels

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GSL will Construct two Pollution Control Vessels for the Indian Coast Guard. These vessels will be independently designed, developed and built by GSL. Both vessels are scheduled for delivery by November 2024, and May 2025, respectively.[13]

Other products

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See also

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References

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