Colombo Dockyard

Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) is a ship building company in Sri Lanka and it is based in Colombo. It has built both military and civilian vessels for both local and overseas clients.

History
Colombo Dockyard, established its operations in 1974 and is one of Sri Lanka's engineering facilities in the business of ship repair, ship building, heavy engineering and offshore engineering. It is situated within the Port of Colombo, thus having the benefits of a deep water harbor.

Facilities and operation


Colombo Dockyard operates four graving drydocks, the largest one with a capacity of as well as repair berth facilities. It is accredited with the ISO 9001-2015 quality certification by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance.

Colombo Dockyard has operated in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Japan since 1993- the collaboration's twenty-year anniversary was celebrated on March 26, 2013.

In 2020 the Colombo Dockyard built Eco bulk carriers for Norwegian Misje Eco Bulk company, Misje subsidiary of Kåre Misje & Co. Colombo Dockyard also built Buoy Tender Vessels to sell to ports of Iraq through Toyota Tsusho Corporation of Japan. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) helped with this project.

Known ship classes built
The following ships were known to be made by CD:


 * Jayasagara-class patrol craft
 * Fisheries Protection Vessel
 * Colombo class
 * Coastal surveillance vessel
 * Fire fighting vessel
 * 29 M Landing Craft
 * Fast Landing Craft
 * 35&40 Meter Fisheries Protection Vessel
 * 65 Ton Bollard Pull Tug
 * Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (80 Ton Bollard Pull)
 * Passenger Vessels (250 Passengers)
 * Passenger Vessels (400 Passengers)
 * Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessel
 * Fast Patrol Vessel
 * Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (130 Ton Bollard Pull)
 * VARD 9-01 111.3m Undersea Cable Laying Vessel
 * VARD 7 85m OPV

Military clients

 * Sri Lanka Coast Guard
 * Maldivian Coast Guard
 * Maldivian Coast Guard

International clients

 * Bourbon 🇫🇷
 * Columbia Shipmanagement (Singapore)
 * Dredging Corporation of India 🇮🇳
 * Dredging International 🇧🇪
 * Eurobulk
 * GOL Offshore 🇮🇳
 * The Greatship Group 🇮🇳
 * Hyundai Engineering & Construction
 * Kotoku Kaiun 🇯🇵
 * Maersk
 * Mercator 🇮🇳
 * Safety Management Overseas
 * Shipping Corporation of India 🇮🇳
 * Pakistan National Shipping Corporation 🇵🇰
 * Sinochem Shipping 🇨🇳
 * Tanker Pacific
 * Thome
 * Tide Water 🇺🇸
 * Titan Fleet Management 🇫🇷
 * Van Oord