SHOFT SHIPYARD, BHARUCH

World class shipyard for world class building

Approx 150,000 sq m area, 500 m waterfront
Build capacity 8 - 12 vessels up to 135 m length
Launching weight up to 2500mt for standard vessels, 5000mt for oversized vessels
3 slipways for launching
Outfit wharf 50m length under construction
Large separate fabrication area with multiple skids
Installed 660kVA power with power house and distribution network
Covered prefabrication bay under construction
Worker and staff housing accommodates over 900

Location and features

Shoft Shipyard has an excellent location on the West coast of Gujarat. The shipyard is 10 nautical miles away from open sea, on the right bank of a deep navigable channel, the mighty River Narmada. Good load bearing capacity of the ground and water depth of about 7.5 meters at low tide make the 35 acre yard ideal for construction of a wide variety of vessels including submersibles and construction barges of non-standard dimensions.

Advantage Shoft

Shipyards often suffer from an unequal utilization of berths and skids because of mismatched or constrained facilities: one or the other lies unutilized at a given point of time. Shoft Shipyard enjoys a significant advantage here. The vast area of the yard, stretching along the waterfront, has enabled Shoft to do strategic and generous allocation of production spaces. Prefabrication areas, skids and berths have been planned to complement each other in capacity utilization. The classic production bottlenecks have been eliminated: there is smooth and consistent flow, and optimal utilization of prefabrication and berthing areas.

North Yard

Area approx 28,000 sq m.
Contains administrative offices, steel stockyard, blasting and painting area, prefabrication area for production of CNC cut members, shaping and bending of plates and structural members, workshops, skids, worker and staff quarters. Fabricated sections are moved to berths in the South Yard by cranes and trolleys.

South Yard

Area approx 62,000 sq m, 500 m waterfront.
Contains site offices, stores for outfit items, building berths, slipways, outfit wharf (soon). Also adequate free yard space for additional on site fabrication.

In Gujarat, the most vibrant state for shipbuilding

The Government of Gujarat is committed to turning the state into ‘ the shipbuilding hub of India’ and is proactively improving infrastructure, particularly along the 6-lane Bharuch-Dahej highway, the lifeline for Shoft Shipyard.

Good infrastructure, access to the main highway, railway station and airport help Shoft maintain project schedules. To date, the shipyard has met all project deliveries.