Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, abbreviated as GRSE, is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata. It builds and repairs commercial and naval vessels. GRSE also exports the ships that the company builds.

Founded in 1884 as a small privately-owned company on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, it was renamed as Garden Reach Workshop in 1916. GRSE was nationalised by the Government of India in 1960. The company was awarded the Miniratna public sector undertaking status, with accompanying financial and operational autonomy in September 2006. GRSE is the first Indian shipyard to build 100 warships.

Facilities
GRSE has ship building facilities in Kolkata and a diesel engine plant in Ranchi.

It has a large computer-aided design (CAD) centre for ship modelling and design. There are four workshops for plate preparation and steel fabrication.

GRSE has a dry dock for ships up to. It has a building berth and two slipways for hull construction. It has a covered all-weather non-tidal wet basin for fitting-out medium and small ships and another fitting-out complex for ships with three berths alongside. In addition, it has two river jetties for berthing smaller vessels up to 60 m in length. GRSE has engine assemble, test, repair and overhaul facilities in Ranchi, which acquires 62acres of land.

On 1 July 2006, GRSE acquired the loss-making Rajabagan Dockyard (RBD) of Central Inland Water Transport Corporation (CIWTC). RBD's facilities with its 600 m waterfront helped alleviate some of GRSE's space constraints and increase its production capacity.

As of 2011, the shipyard was undergoing a inr 5300000000 upgrade programme, expected to be completed by March 2012. The second phase of the upgrade programme was scheduled to commence from June 2013.

Commercial vessels
Among commercial and scientific ships, GRSE builds oceanographic and hydrographic research vessels, marine acoustic research ships, non-propelled dredgers, grab hopper dredgers, trailing suction hopper dredgers, tugboats, and bulk carriers.

Naval vessels
As of March 2024, GRSE has designed and built 108 warships and patrol vessels for the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard for the last 63 years. Vessels built at GRSE include guided-missile frigates, corvettes, fleet tankers, fast patrol vessels, amphibious warfare vessels and hovercraft.

GRSE has built the following notable warships for the Indian Navy.


 * Aditya-class auxiliary ship
 * Brahmaputra-class frigates
 * Khukri-class corvette
 * Kora-class corvettes
 * Kamorta-class corvettes
 * Patrol vessels include Seaward-class defense boats, Trinkat-class patrol vessel, Bangaram-class patrol vessel, and Car Nicobar-class patrol vesseles.
 * Landing Ship Tanks include Magar-class amphibious warfare vessel and Shardul-class tank landing shipes.
 * Landing craft utility vessels include Mk. IV LCU (contract in September 2011 for ₹2,176 crore).
 * Survey Vessels include Sandhayak-class (1981).

Current contracts of the Shipyard includes 8 Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, 3 Project 17A-class frigates, Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel, Sandhayak-class survey vessel.

Exports
GRSE delivered the corvette MCGS Barracuda to Mauritius on 20 December 2014. The contract was worth $58.5 million. With this, India joined the elite club of warship exporters. The Mauritius offshore patrol vessel has an integrated bridge system and cutting edge controls and main engines and can support 83 member crew. It measures 74.10 m in length and 11.40 m in breadth and will be capable of moving at a maximum speed of 22 kn with an approximate displacement of 1,350 tonnes.

GRSE has been short-listed for a patrol boat project for Vietnam worth inr 6000000000 and is also bidding for an order of two frigates for Philippines.

GRSE was reported to be the lowest bidder to supply two light frigates to the Philippines. A total of four firms joined the bidding for the Philippine Navy project: GRSE; Hyundai Heavy Industries Inc. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., both from South Korea; and Navantia S.A. of Spain. GRSE's light frigate would have been a design based on the Indian Navy's Kamorta-class corvette.

In June 2024, GRSE secured a contract for design, construction and delivery of four multi-purpose vessels to transport windmill blades. The deal was signed by Carsten Rehder Schiffsmakler and Reederei, a German shipbuilding entity and GRSE for a value of inr 54000000. The vessels would displace 7,500 tonnes and will be 120 metres long and 17 metres wide with a maximum draght of 6.75 metres.

On 1 July 2024, GRSE received another $21 million order for a 800-tonne Advanced Ocean-Going Tug from the Bangladesh Navy. The tugboat will be delivered within 24 months of signing the contract. The tugboat is expected to measure 61 meters in length, about 15.80 meters in width and have a draught of nearly 6.80 meters. The order was received a few weeks after receiving an order for a Trailing Suction Hopper (TSH) dredger. GRSE also has an order of 6 patrol boats for the Bangladesh's Department of Fisheries.