Volume of ships delivered in India FY 2016-2020, by sector
In financial year 2020, private shipyards in India delivered 28.7 thousand tons deadweight of ships. In comparison, the public shipyards delivered just more than 2.5 thousand tons deadweight of ships. The ships delivered by Indian shipyards saw a huge dip in financial year 2019 compared to previous years. Dead weight tonnage is used to measure the maximum carrying capacity of the ship that can be built by a shipyard as the number of tons of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, passengers, and crew.
