Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
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Native name
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Hindi: गार्डन रीच शिपबिल्डर्स एंड इंजीनियर्स लिमिटेड Bengali: গার্ডেনরিচ শিপবিল্ডার্স অ্যান্ড ইঞ্জিনিয়ার্স লিমিটেড |
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| State-owned enterprise | |
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, India |
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Area served
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India |
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Key people
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Rear Admiral VK Saxena, IN(Retd) (Chairman and CEO) |
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Naval ships Tankers Bulk carriers Platform supply vessels |
| Services | Ship design Ship building Ship repair |
| Revenue | ₹16.943495 billion (US$260 million) (2014) |
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Number of employees
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3133 (April 2014) |
| Website | www |
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (Hindi: गार्डन रीच शिपबिल्डर्स एंड इंजीनियर्स लिमिटेड; IAST: Gārḍen rīc șipabilḍars limiṭeḍ), abbreviated as GRSE (जी आर एस ई), is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It builds and repairs commercial and naval vessels. Presently GRSE has also started building export ships in a mission to expand its business.
Founded in 1884 as a small privately owned company on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, it was renamed as Garden Reach Workshop in 1916. The company was nationalised by the Government of India in 1960. It was awarded the Miniratna status, with accompanying financial and operational autonomy in September 2006. It is first Indian shipyard to build 100 warships .
GRSE has ship building facilities in Kolkata and Ranchi.
It has a large Computer Aided Design (CAD) centre for ship modelling and design. There are four workshops for plate preparation and steel fabrication.
GRSE has a dry dock for ships up to 26,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT). It has a building berth and two slipways for hull construction. It has a covered all-weather non-tidal wet basin for fitting-out medium and small ships and another fitting-out complex for ships with three berths alongside. In addition, it has two river jetties for berthing smaller vessels up to 60 metres (200 ft) in length. GRSE has engine repair and overhaul facilities in Ranchi.
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