1. The Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, Visakhapatnam was set up in the year 1941 by the Scindia Steam Navigation Company. The Shipyard was partially taken over by Govt. of India in 1952, and HSL became a fully Govt of India owned enterprise in Jul 1961. Presently, this is the largest public sector shipyard in the country and the first yard to obtain ISO 9001-2000 accreditation. Recently, the yard has obtained certificate of approval of ISO 9001-2008 Certification from IRQS on 09 Nov 2012. Since inception, the yard has delivered 173 vessels of various types and repaired over 1920 vessels. 2. The yard has three slipways, a covered building dock, a wet basin and a dry dock along with necessary facilities required for shipbuilding, ship repairs and submarine repairs. 3. Over a period of time the yard has been able to emerge as a one of the major players in the Indian maritime sector. The factors that make HSL stand out are as under:- (a) Largest shipyard on the East coast of India. (b) Well laidout facilities with steel throughput capacity of 20000 tons/ year. (c) Only shipyard with submarine repair capability on the East coast. (d) Large covered building dock for un-interrupted work round the year. (e) Strategically located at harbour entrance (water depth of about 10 mt). (f) Located close to major customers viz. ENC, DCI and VPT. (g) Capable of building ships upto 80,000 DWT. (h) Excellent Quality of work with low rejection rates. (i) 850 m of wharfage with adequate cranage. (j) Large drydock & wet basin with exclusive workshops to facilitate ship repairs. (k) Cranage to handle blocks / loads upto 300 tons. (l) Three low bed transporters upto 200 tons capacity. (m) ISO 9001 / 2008 certified yard (n) Good quality assurance system & test facilities. Core Activities 4. The yard has three Strategic Business Units(SBUs) to address its core activities as follows:- (a) Shipbuilding (b) Ship Repairs (c) Submarine Refit Shipbuilding Facilities 5. Steel Stack Yard. Storage capacity of 30,000 Tones spread over an area of 7000 Sq. meters and equipped with 10T, 16T EOT cranes with magnetic pickups. In addition, 12T mobile cranes for handling plates & sections are also available. 6. Plate Treatment Plant. The plant comprise Captivator, Hydro leveler with dust collector, shot blasting machines for plates and sections of each of spaces priming machine & 2 nos. roller conveyors
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