Shipbuilding in India : Challenges and Strategies
Author | : | Ravi Vohra, T.S.V. Ramana |
Year of Publication | : | 2009 |
Publisher | : | KW Publishers Pvt Ltd |
ISBN - 13 | : | 9788190743143 |
Edition | : | First |
Language | : | English |
Binding | : | Hardcover |
Subject | : | General |
About the Book :
As a maritime nation,
warship-building is an essential element of the India's national security
strategy construct. India produces world class warships but still lags behind
the world leaders in the production of large commercial vessels. Even so,
warshipbuilding processes and practices need to be improved further, so that
the industry does not impose increasingly high opportunity costs on scarce
national security resources. This volume highlights the challenges that bear
upon the shipbuilding industry in India, and the response strategies and
mechanisms that need to be resorted to, in order to overcome the challenges. It
consists of contributions by renowned experts from across the shipbuilding
community, be it the yards or their customers, from India as also from abroad.
A brief but succinct overview of the industry in the international context is
followed by a detailed examination of the state of the industry in India. The
chapters that follow then delve deeper into specific issues like infrastructure
constraints in Indian shipyards as also material management issues, capacity
limitations and the path to indigenous warship building. The volume also
highlights best practices and lessons learned from the design, production and
procurement processes of some leading European yards. Efficient shipbuilding is
not merely a production issue, particularly for warships wherein stringent
government specified acquisition procedures often apply. Not surprisingly, many
new developments have taken place worldwide in acquisition processes and
procedures as well. The warship acquisition process in the United Kingdom and
the US Navy’s ship acquisition procedure have also been dealt with in detail,
so that appropriate lessons emerge.
The volume will, thus, be very useful for policy
makers, shipbuilding industry personnel both from the technical and
non-technical streams, study groups and individual scholars, both from within
and outside the shipbuilding community.
About Author :
Rear Admiral Ravi Vohra (Retd) is the Director of the National Maritime Foundation.
Commander TSV Ramana is a Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation.