“As part of the ‘Make in India’ programme, Cochin Shipyard is looking to diversify its product mix," a spokesman told the Live Mint website.
"We had floated a tender to identify a suitable collaborator to build high quality dredgers in India."
IHC emerged as its new partner, and will cooperate on building cutter suction dredgers and trailer suction hopper dredgers.
The shipping ministry plans to increase the depth at its 12 ports to 18 metres by 2020 to accommodate larger ships.
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