Pipavav
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| State : | Gujarat | ||
| District : | Amreli | ||
| Sub-district : | Rajula | ||
| Location : | 20 ° 58 ′ N , 71 ° 34 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 1,858 (2011) | ||
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Pipavav is a place on the Gujarat coast in India . It is located in the Amreli district .
port
The deep water port is a special economic zone and was established in 1996 on the basis of a public-private partnership with the government of Gujarat and SKIL Infrastructure Ltd. built. The port complex includes container terminals , car loading terminals , fuel terminals , several loading quays, bulk cargo loading bay, repair quays, dry dock and semi-dry dock. The scrapping yard was converted into the Reliance Shipyard between 2005 and 2009 for new builds and repairs.
Scrapping yard
In Pipavav, with the help of the Japanese Overseas Economic Corp. Fond built a modern facility for the scrapping of ships . This scrapping yard has been designed in a more modern way than the primitive facilities in neighboring Alang . It had two docks 680 m long and 60 m and 65 m wide, respectively, which imitated the technology from Alang Beach. The front half was deep enough to allow ships to enter. Exposed to the tide and waves, about 70% of the hull was planned in this area. Due to the shallower draft, it was possible to transport the hull further into the shallow rear half during high tide . This area ran largely empty when the spring was low and could be separated from the sea. The plan was to dismantle the remaining 30% of the hull, which also contained most of the problematic substances. This type of dry dock was known as a semi dry dock . The shipyard was designed for the environmentally friendly disposal of 12 single-hull oil tankers of> 200,000 DWT VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) per year and was also suitable for some> 320,000 DWT ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) . By dividing the two basins into two areas each, there was enough space to dismantle four VLCC tankers at the same time. The buildings for recycling or collecting poisonous paints, asbestos dust, PCB dust as well as liquid separators and processors were located next to the basins. The scrapping yard was built by Sumitomo Corporation from Japan and completed in 2003 to full capacity. The operator was Pipavav Ship Dismantling Engineering Limited . This was a wholly owned subsidiary of SKIL Infrastructure Limited . When the facility was visited by Greenpeace members in 2002 , it had been completely unused since it was partially opened. No ship was recycled in the recycling facility until 2007.
Shipbuilding yard
After the scrapping yard was unable to participate in the market, the company and the 841 acre area were taken over by the Indian fund IL&FS in April 2005 . One of the basins was converted into a conventional dry dock 662 m long and 65 m wide with a gateway to the ocean. When completed, it was the second largest dry dock in the world. Two gantry cranes can transport ship sections weighing up to 1,200 tons over a distance of around 680 m. The shipyard, renamed Pipavav Shipyard , was initially renamed Pipavav Shipyard Limited , later renamed Pipavav Devence and Offshore Engineering Company Ltd. and currently operated by Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited . In India, the shipyard is the largest shipbuilding and ship construction yard in the country.
When the shipyard opened in 2009, it was limited to repairs and conversions, as well as the construction of new merchant ships, oil tankers, drilling rigs and production platforms. Since 2010 military ships such as coastal boats, destroyers , corvettes , frigates , supply ships , aircraft carriers and submarines have been allowed to be built .
In 2010 it was decided to convert the second port basin of the former scrapping yard into a 680 m long and 60 m wide dry dock. However, this plan has not yet been implemented (as of 2019). The shipyard now operates under the name Reliance Shipyard .
Web links
- Reliance Shipyard website
- Satellite image (both basins and both semi-dry docks)
- Aerial view (left the dry dock, right the basin and the semi-dry dock)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.census2011.co.in
- ↑ a b c d e India - India's first - Annual Report 2010-11. Pipavav Defense and Offshore Engineering Company Limited, accessed March 4, 2020.
- ↑ Port of Pipavav , accessed March 4, 2020
- ↑ a b c d European Commission Directorate General Environment (ed.): Ship Dismantling and Pre-cleaning of Ships - Final report (= report . No. 64622-02-1 ). Self-published, June 28, 2007, p. 61, 66, 68 (English, europa.eu [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on March 4, 2020]).
- ^ A b c India: Pipavav Shipyard Changes Its Name into Pipavav Defense and Offshore Engineering Company. In: World Marine News, June 28, 2011, accessed March 4, 2020.
- ↑ Travel report India - Part 4: Pipavav, a modern scrap yard waiting for orders. In: Greenpeace. Greenpeace, November 2002, archived from the original on February 19, 2004 ; accessed on March 4, 2020 (English).