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Collapse Of 250 Ton Goliath Crane At GRSE To Impact India’s Most Advanced Warships Program

Considering it happened in kolkata AND in a govt. shipyard, I am pretty sure incompetence had its role too.

But to bring down a 250 ton Crane, it takes more than incompetence. It takes a certain chinese "competence" and reputation.
Giving how much we build infrastructure and leading the global infrastructure project and being the largest shipbuilder in the world, our crane had never experience problem worldwide, it's safe to say our equipment is 2nd to none.. In fact this crane is built by Finland. It shows that no matter how much quality one builds it, selling any high-end equipment to India is a risk to that country reputation for any Indian mishandling.
 
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Britain used Chinese crane to build qe2. Shows what a competent navy can do, instead of one that is too busy swigging cow piss and causing accidents left right and center
 
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My best guess still is that the crane was from China. But let us wait for more details to emerge.

Ok, because this is getting ridiculous, I decided to spend five minutes searching this.

In charge of the 2012-2013 Garden Reach Shipyard facility upgrade (when the crane was added) was the Denmark Based Ramboll Group.

The company that got the tender, manufactured and installed the crane was the Indian conglomerate McNally Bharat Engineering Company Limited (MBE).

Now, can we please move on with our lives?
 
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Spent another 5 minutes. Evidently, MBE was also the supplier of the Goliath cranes that the Cochin and Mazagon shipyards use. Those are identical to the Goliath crane MBE has manufactured in GSRE too.

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So, the crane was Indian. Let's see how the investigation unfolds..
 
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Many such Crains collpeses very now and thent It will be restored.
 
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So this kind of India wants to fight a 2 front war against 2 nuclear nations with such demeanor?
Is it the case of 1000 Crompton Greaves/ Usha/Bajaj fans hitting the shit simultaneously?

Give me a break Modians.

Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.
 
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MUMBAI, MAY 1


The collapse of a giant crane at State-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) a fortnight ago could pose a risk to its ongoing contracts and the ability to take up new orders, most of which are funded by the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard.

On April 17, a ‘Goliath’ crane of 250-tonne capacity collapsed due to heavy winds of 100 kmph at GRSE’s main works unit in Kolkata. There were no casualties. The incident has been kept under wraps by the company management as it comes days after GRSE filed papers with markets regulator SEBI to sell shares in an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

The collapsed crane, according to a shipbuilding expert, is damaged and will have to be written off. The structure has blocked the dry dock and the building berth gates.

The module hall where blocks for the P 17-A class frigates are being fabricated was destroyed in the mishap and has become unusable. “This has a direct impact on the P 17-A frigates-building programme. A large store adjoining the building berth has been damaged and is now unusable, further impacting the work at the shipyard. A new Goliath crane has a time-period of 30 months from issue of tender to installation and commissioning. Thus, not only will the ongoing programmes suffer, but this will also impact the contract under negotiation with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for anti-submarine warfare shallow water crafts,” said the expert, who has knowledge of the incident.

This could not be independently verified by BusinessLine.

The company, according to sources, has ordered an internal enquiry to establish the cause of accident and fix responsibility.

GRSE could not be reached for comment immediately as its office was closed on Labour Day.

It will impact production, but it will not stop it because they can get mobile cranes and smaller cranes,” said a shipbuilding executive. “It is always more efficient to build vessels in bigger blocks with Goliath cranes that are used to move bigger blocks or join bigger blocks. If this is gone, then they will have to rely on smaller cranes and instead of 200-ton blocks they will have to make 50-tonne or 100-ton blocks. The yard will not grind to a halt, but productivity will come down,” he added.

“Whatever data is available in the media, that is amply covered,” a GRSE official said, abruptly ending a phone call made by BusinessLine.

GRSE, a Miniratna company controlled by the MoD, has orders worth ₹208,033.60 million. As much as 98.63 per cent of shipbuilding orders are from the Indian Navy and 1.37 per cent from the Coast Guard. Of engineering orders, 13.28 per cent are from the Indian Navy. In the engine division, 75.22 per cent and 5.41 per cent comprises orders from the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard respectively. The data was obtained from IPO papers filed by GRSE with SEBI.

The order book includes firm contracts for manufacturing and delivery of fourteen ships comprising one anti-submarine warfare corvette, five landing craft utilities, five fast patrol vessels and three P17-A class frigates.

GRSE has also been declared the lowest or second-lowest bidder for other projects, for which contracts have not yet been signed, including construction and delivery of four survey vessels for the MoD and eight anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft for the Indian Navy.

GRSE has three core shipbuilding facilities, two engineering units and a diesel engine plant.

Published on May 01, 2018

https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...rse-may-hurt-warship-work/article23740931.ece

Will Mods cleanup this thread? I'm going back to Sinodefence.
 
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Israeli found new paradise of corruption in South Asia ... don't worry , in south asia we have huge supply of corruption injections ,, no foreigner will be saved ...
 
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