Nigel Shipyard Private Limited
Nigel Shipyard Private Limited shares a shipyard site at Rassaim, Loutolim, Salcette, Goa with West Coast Shipyard (WCS), part of the Cabral Group of Companies, whose website is the source of the available information. The Loutolim yard on the River Zuari, operating since 1986, carries out ship repair, dry docking and new construction of steel vessels such as barges, mini bulk carriers, tugs, dredgers, ferries, passenger launches, catamarans, pontoons and leisure craft. Facilities include two dry docks able to take vessels up to 88 metres, slipways, fabrication and machine shops, blasting and painting areas and cranes up to 75 tonnes. Note that the website content describes West Coast Shipyard; details specific to Nigel Shipyard Private Limited are not given beyond the shared yard address.
Nigel Shipyard Private Limited
Nigel Shipyard Private Limited is listed at the shipyard at Rassaim, Loutolim, Salcette, Goa, India, which the available website identifies as the site of "West Coast Shipyard and Nigel Shipyard." The published material covers West Coast Shipyard (WCS), part of the Cabral Group of Companies, which began in 1986 as a barge maintenance yard on the River Zuari and has since expanded into repairs of a wide range of vessels as well as new construction. No separate description of Nigel Shipyard's own activities appears on the site.
Services
- Ship repair: routine maintenance, hull repair, propeller and propeller shaft repair, stern gear, steering gear and pipeline repair
- Dry docking; top-side and voyage repairs round the clock
- Conversions: jumboising, refurbishment, modernisation, upgradation and rebuilding
- New shipbuilding, including vessel design, hull block fabrication design and activity scheduling
- Waterjet and grit blasting, painting and surface preservation
- Planned yacht park with boat servicing, berthing, dry docking and monsoon storage (described as forthcoming)
Facilities
- Yard area approx. 18,000 sq m (overview page cites 14,000 sq m); one jetty 70 x 4.0 m
- Dry Dock 1: 130 x 20 x 5 m; Dry Dock 2: 74 x 16 x 5 m; docks stated to accommodate vessels up to 88 m
- Slipways for 1,000 T side launch; rail system for building on land; shipbuilding berths and a 70 x 35 m slipway
- Covered fabrication bay with CNC cutting, cold frame bending, press and rolling
- Plumbing and machine shop (112 x 15 m) with lathes, vertical boring, radial drilling and pipe bending machines
- Covered and open blasting areas; Magna water blasters at 550 bar
- Lifting and handling: 75 T lattice boom crawler crane, 65 T and 20 T tyre-mounted cranes, hydraulic jacks 10–250 T
- Machine and structural shops, steel yard, own power house and transformer per dock, administrative block with owner/surveyor rooms
Vessel Types
- Barges and mini bulk carriers
- Tugs, dredgers and pontoons
- Passenger launches, ferry boats, catamarans and pilot launches
- Fishing trawlers, leisure craft and yachts
- Jack-up platforms and steel floating structures
Location
- Shipyard: Rassaim, Loutolim, Salcette, Goa 403718, on the River Zuari
- Office: Cabral Group of Companies, Tilak Commercial Complex, F. L. Gomes Road, Vasco Da Gama, Goa 403802