23 August 2011

News Story: (India) Plans afoot to augment capacity for Scorpene construction


The Indian Scorpenes are being
built at Mazagon Dock Limited.

MUMBAI (PTI): State-owned shipyard Mazagon Dockyards Limited (MDL) has said that capacity augmentation will help it reduce delays in the delivery of the first of the six Scorpene class submarines to nine months.

The diesel-electric Scorpenes are currently being built in a single workshop at the yard and plans are afoot to make a second workshop operational by 2013, MDL chairman and managing director Vice Admiral (retd) HS Malhi told reporters here

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