L&T launches Navy’s floating dock

On 20 June 2017, Larsen & Toubro launched a Floating Dock (FDN-2) designed and built for the Indian Navy at Kattupalli shipyard, near Chennai. L&T was mandated by the Ministry of Defence in May 2015 to design and build the FDN-2 for an order value of Rs. 468 crores. The Floating Dock will be delivered at Port Blair and put through a series of harbour trials before delivery to the Navy. Once operationalised, it would enhance the technical repair infrastructure of the Navy for ships based at the Andaman & Nicobar Islands as well as for visiting Naval ships. The Floating Dock is 185m long and 40m wide, and is designed for docking warships and submarines of up to 8000 tonnes displacement with draughts of up to 7 m, during both day and night and is provided with a hauling-in system to handle a ship’s docking and undocking operations. It can also support ships berthed along side and meet their logistics requirements.