According to a Sept. 26 report from the Press Trust of India and Business Standard, engineering major Larsen and Toubro’s (L&T) shipping arm L&T Shipbuilding has earmarked around Rs 1,500 crore to develop around 800 acres of land at Kadipully near Ennore in Chennai for expanding its vessel building capacity, a top company official said. The Kadipully project, to make vessels primarily for defense, would be developed in phases and the first phase will start by mid-2011, the official said.
(Source: Business Standard)