Question

The Mazgaon Dock is located at ________.
(A) Chennai
(B) Mumbai
(C) Gujarat
(D) Rajasthan

Answer 1

Hint: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, formerly known as Mazagon Dock Limited, is a shipyard. It produces warships and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated offshore oil exploration support vessels.

Complete step by step answer: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, appropriately referred to as the 'Ship Builder to the Country,' is one of India's leading public sector defense shipyards undertaking under the Ministry of Defense which is located in Mazagon, Mumbai. Key activities are the building of warships and submarines with facilities located in Mumbai and Nhava (under development). It has been able to build warships, submarines, merchant ships up to 40,000 DWT since 1979.
For outfitting work, the company has a large number of workshops with sophisticated machinery and machines related to the manufacture of hulls and the construction of ships. The Company has trained staff to incorporate CAD/CAM/CIM using the latest ship design software, working from a variety of workstations with the latest computer hardware to provide up-to-date design and development support, commensurate with the yard's capabilities. The workforce is well educated in several disciplines.
Vice Admiral Narayan Prasad, AVSM, NM, IN (Retd), is Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited. The former Naval Officer took over his new job on 30 Dec 2019. The operations at the yard are shipbuilding, the construction of submarines, and the manufacture of offshore structures. It has production facilities in Mumbai and Nhava.
The yard can build warships, submarines, and merchant ships of up to 30,000 tonnes of dead weight (DWT). It can produce wellhead platforms, process and production platforms, and jack-up rigs for oil exploration.

Note: MDL is constructing offshore oil drilling platforms. It operates facilities at Alcock, Mumbai, and Nhava Yard for the construction of wellhead platforms, water injection and output separator and glycol process capabilities, as well as jack-up rigs, SBMs, and other offshore structures. Repair and maintenance work on offshore rigs is carried out at Alcock; jackets up to 80 m in length and 2,200 tonnes in weight can be installed. The yard builds specialized vessels capable of cleaning up oil spills and fighting fires on offshore drilling platforms.