- CEO
- Thimara S. Godakumbura
- Full Time Employees
- 3,000
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Trucks/Construction/Farm machinery
- Address
- Colombo Sri Lanka
- IPO Date
- Aug 16, 1993
- Business
- Colombo Dockyard PLC is a Sri Lanka-based maritime engineering company that operates in the shipbuilding, ship repair, heavy engineering, and offshore engineering sectors. Established in 1974 and headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the company operates as a subsidiary of Japan-based Onomichi Dockyard Co., Ltd., which holds a controlling interest. Colombo Dockyard PLC manages its core operations across four primary business segments: Shipbuilding, Ship Repair, Heavy Engineering, and Offshore Engineering. The Shipbuilding division designs and constructs commercial and specialized vessels, including high-tech cable-laying vessels, anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, multipurpose platform supply vessels (PSVs), harbor tugs, pilot boats, passenger catamarans, crew transfer boats, patrol crafts, and energy-efficient eco-bulk carriers; the Ship Repair division provides drydocking, routine maintenance, emergency breakdown assistance, and afloat repair services across four dry docks with lifting capacities up to 125,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT), servicing container carriers, tankers, bulk carriers, passenger vessels, dredgers, and naval ships through hull restoration, main and auxiliary machinery overhauls, propulsion shaft repairs, piping system renewal, high-pressure hydro-blasting, specialized marine coating, and ballast water treatment system (BWTS) retrofits; the Heavy Engineering division manufactures and installs heavy industrial steel structures, pressure vessels, petrochemical storage tanks, bridge structural components, and overhead piping networks for energy, power generation, and public infrastructure projects; and the Offshore Engineering division executes structural fabrication, upgrade works, and repair services for mobile offshore drilling units, subsea equipment, and platform support structures. The company serves global shipowners, marine operators, and industrial clients across South Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. In recent developments, Colombo Dockyard PLC has focused on expanding its portfolio of sustainable and green maritime vessels, advancing contracts for hybrid-electric eco-bulk carriers and specialized underwater cable-laying ships for European and Asian shipowners. The company has also expanded its rapid-response afloat repair operations across regional Sri Lankan ports, including Hambantota, Trincomalee, and Galle, while intensifying operational and technological synergies with parent company Onomichi Dockyard Co., Ltd. to modernize yard engineering systems, implement automated fabrication workflows, and strengthen export-focused revenue resilience.