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GRSE partners Rolls Royce Solutions for building marine engines in India

GRSE and Rolls Royce Solutions will cooperate to manufacture under licence the technologically advanced MTU S4000 marine engines

GRSE partners Rolls Royce Solutions for building marine engines in India
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The use of imported engines and gas turbines has been even more prevalent in large destroyers and frigates, which have relied on Zorya gas turbines, supplied from Ukraine

Ajai Shukla
In a major step towards reducing the import content of Indian warships, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Rolls Royce Solutions of Germany for manufacturing high-quality marine diesel engines in India.

The MoU was signed on Friday by the chiefs of GRSE and MTU -- Commodore P R Hari (Retired), and the MTU head in India, GS Selwyn -- in the presence of the Navy’s Chief of Material, Vice-Admiral Sandeep Naithani.

Defence shipyards have long faced criticism for insufficient indigenisation. Of the three main parts of a warship – the “float”, “move” and “fight”