- CEO
- V. J. Jose
- Full Time Employees
- 4,013
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Trucks/Construction/Farm machinery
- Address
- Administrative Building Kochi India 682015
- IPO Date
- Aug 11, 2017
- Business
- Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), headquartered in Kochi, Kerala, India, and founded in 1972 as a wholly owned Government of India company, operates as India's largest shipbuilding and maintenance facility with Miniratna status. The company specializes in shipbuilding, ship repair, and marine engineering training; it constructs a diverse range of vessels including platform supply vessels, double-hulled oil tankers up to 110,000 DWT, bulk carriers, offshore support vessels, defense ships such as anti-submarine warfare shallow water crafts and indigenous aircraft carriers, wind farm service operation vessels (SOVs), hybrid ferries, dredgers, tugs, and luxury cruise vessels; ship repair capabilities extend to vessels up to 125,000 DWT, encompassing upgrades for oil exploration ships, naval vessels, and merchant ships from clients like the Indian Navy, Shipping Corporation of India, and international operators; additional services include marine engineering training through its Marine Engineering Training Institute (METI), which offers a 12-month Graduate Marine Engineers course approved by India's Directorate General of Shipping. CSL serves defense, commercial maritime, offshore oil exploration, and inland waterway sectors, with primary operations in India and exports to Europe, the Middle East, the UK, Norway, and Saudi Arabia. In recent developments, CSL signed a letter of intent with CMA CGM Group in October 2025 for six 1,700 TEU dual-fuel LNG containerships, the first such major international order for LNG vessels built in India, in collaboration with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE); it entered a comprehensive MoU with HD KSOE in July 2025 and Drydocks World in May 2025 to develop ship repair clusters; the company plans to raise Rs 6,000 crore over five to six years for expansions including a potential greenfield shipyard requiring USD 2-3 billion, leveraging government schemes, multilateral loans, and blue bonds; recent milestones include keel laying for battery-electric hybrid SOVs for North Star Shipping (UK) in November 2025, delivery of the first ASW shallow water craft 'Mahe' to the Indian Navy in October 2025, and new orders for tugs from Polestar Maritime and Adani Group affiliates. Subsidiaries such as Udupi Cochin Shipyard and Hooghly Cochin Shipyard support specialized vessel construction including dry cargo vessels and luxury cruises.