DCI Dredge Godavari, delivered to Dedging Corporation of India Cochin Shipyard on October 18, is claimed to be India’s largest hopper dredger. | Photo credit: THULASI KAKKAT
Dedging Corporation of India (DCI) has pinned its hopes on Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) to find a place among the top five companies in the world engaged in high-end marine works.
DCI chairman M Angamuthu said on Saturday (October 18) that the company plans to buy two more dredgers from CSL, besides asking the leading shipbuilder to help with technical training in tank and canal dredging.
Mr. Angamuthu was speaking at an event where CSL supplied a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) for DCI along with two large vessels. The vessel, named DCI Dredge Godavari, developed in collaboration with Royal IHC, Netherlands, is said to be the largest TSHD built in India.
“Out of the 120 million cubic meters of dredging in the country, DCI will handle nearly 60 million cubic meters. We would like to cross 100 million cubic meters in the coming days and CSL’s latest dredger with a capacity of 12,000 cubic meters will add another feather in the annals of CSL in two days when we come to the dredger. We intend to be a global leader now doing maintenance dredging and we intend to carry out capital dredging in the coming days,” Mr Angamuthu said.
Other vessels launched are the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Vessel (ASW SWC) and the Hybrid Electric Methanol Commissioning Ready Operational Vessel (CSOV).
Published – 18 Oct 2025 20:49 IST
