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Colombo Dockyard

Colombo Dockyard

Sri Lankan ship building company

Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) is a ship building company in Sri Lanka and it is based in Colombo. It has built both military and civilian vessels for both local and overseas clients.

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History

Colombo Dockyard, established its operations in 1974 and is one of Sri Lanka's engineering facilities in the business of ship repair, ship building, heavy engineering and offshore engineering. It is situated within the Port of Colombo, thus having the benefits of a deep water harbor.[2]

Facilities and operation

Greatship Anjali built by Colombo Dockyard
Lakshadweep built by Colombo Dockyard

Colombo Dockyard operates four graving drydocks, the largest one with a capacity of 125,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) as well as repair berth facilities. It is accredited with the ISO 9001-2015 quality certification by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance.[3]

Colombo Dockyard has operated in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Japan since 1993- the collaboration's twenty-year anniversary was celebrated on March 26, 2013.[4]

In 2020 the Colombo Dockyard built Eco bulk carriers for Norwegian Misje Eco Bulk company, Misje subsidiary of Kåre Misje & Co.[5] Colombo Dockyard also built Buoy Tender Vessels to sell to ports of Iraq through Toyota Tsusho Corporation of Japan. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) helped with this project.[6]

Known ship classes built

The following ships were known to be made by CD:[7]

  • Jayasagara-class patrol craft[8]
  • Fisheries Protection Vessel
  • Colombo class[9]
  • Coastal surveillance vessel
  • Fire fighting vessel
  • 29 M Landing Craft
  • Fast Landing Craft
  • 35&40 Meter Fisheries Protection Vessel
  • 65 Ton Bollard Pull Tug
  • Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (80 Ton Bollard Pull)
  • Passenger Vessels (250 Passengers)
  • Passenger Vessels (400 Passengers)
  • Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessel
  • Fast Patrol Vessel
  • Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (130 Ton Bollard Pull)
  • VARD 9-01 111.3m Undersea Cable Laying Vessel[10]
  • VARD 7 85m OPV[11]

Customers

Military clients

International clients

References

  1. [1]
    "Annual Report 2021" (PDF). cse.lk. Colombo Dockyard PLC. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  2. [2]
    Port of Colombo
  3. [3]
    "COLOMBO DOCKYARD AWARDED ISO 9001: 2015 CERTIFICATIONS BY LLOYD'S REGISTER QUALITY ASSURANCE (LRQA), UK". Colombo Dockyard. cdl.lk. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  4. [4]
    "COLOMBO DOCKYARD PLC - EDB Sri Lanka". www.srilankabusiness.com. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  5. [5]
    "Colombo Dockyard to build six Eco bulk carriers for Norwegian firm - Adaderana Biz English | Sri Lanka Business News". Adaderana Biz English | Sri Lanka Business News. 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  6. [6]
    "Colombo Dockyard PLC Launches the Buoy Tender Vessel Being Built For General Company for Ports of Iraq through Toyota Tsusho Corporation of Japan". Adaderana Biz English | Sri Lanka Business News. 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  7. [7]
    http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/bitstream/handle/123/1459/94831%20_1.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y [bare URL PDF]
  8. [8]
    "SLNS 'Jayasagara' decommissioned". Daily News. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  9. [9]
    Shamindra Ferdinando. "Navy obtains Ultra Fast Attack Craft from Dockyard Ltd". island.lk. Archived from the original on 19 November 2003. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  10. [10]
    "VARD designs new cable lay vessel for Kokusai Cable Ship Co. Ltd in Japan - VARD". www.vard.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  11. [11]
    "Colombo Dockyard to get US$180mn Sri Lanka patrol vessel deal". www.economynext.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
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