New Delhi: Larsen & Toubro, a private
infrastructure development company, on Tuesday said it will bid for
building Navy's second line of conventional submarines,
recalling that it had almost won the contract for Amur-class
vessels that never took off.
L&T's Chairman and Managing Director A M Naik told
reporters here that its shipbuilding facilities in Hazira in
Gujarat and Kattupalli near Chennai in Tamil Nadu had
capacities to take up construction of all types of warships,
including submarines.
"Our shipyards in Hazira and Kattupalli have the
capability to take up construction of vessels of about 7,000
to 9,000 tonnage and even warships of the size three or four
times these vessels," Naik said.
"We are bidding for the Navy's second line of
submarines. We would like to recall that we were the chosen
ones for the Amur-class submarines, which did not fructify,"
Naik said on the sidelines of a seminar on peaceful use of
nuclear energy here.
The company's senior executive vice president M V
Kotwal said the Hazira shipyard's production capability could
be stepped up once the Navy's orders were received and its
Kattupalli shipyard over a 900-acre area would come up soon to
augment its production capacities.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 21:18