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Defence shipyards: Designing for the world

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud  
For decades, India’s three defence shipyards combined the inefficiency of the public sector with the indecisiveness of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
 
In Marxist Kolkata, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) also blended in militant trade unionism to ensure that the warships it was asked to build were invariably delayed.
 
That’s history. Today, with the MoD loosening its hold over its shipyards, GRSE buzzes with engineering, a capitalist energy never seen before in the 124-year history of that shipyard.
 
Business Standard has learned that GRSE is at an advanced stage of negotiations with French shipbuilding giant, DCNS (Direction des Constructions Navales Services), for jointly setting up a cutting edge design centre for warships and merchant ships. This will target both the Indian and the global markets.
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