Approximately 4.5 kilometers away from the dry-dock, and located on 95 hectares of land in a Special Economic Zone approved by the Government of India, a state of the art block-making facility has been set up for fabrication of hull blocks

By having located the workshops and fabrication facilities in a SEZ away from the dockyard site, PSL has the dual advantage of having been able to reserve the maximum area of water frontage available at the shipyard site for ship assembly, offshore fabrication and ship repair activities whilst carrying out its fabrication and other similar activities through a highly tax-efficient SEZ unit.

The blocks manufactured at this site are pre-outfitted to the maximum extent. This is done in the ideal working conditions offered by covered fabrication shops. When ready, the blocks are moved to the dock-side for pre-erection of mega/giga-blocks followed by lowering them on the dock floor for final assembly and vessel launching.

The block-making site is equipped with, among others, the following facilities:

	Central Steel storage, surface treatment and CNC marking shop
	Hull shop comprising of panel line, sub assembly, curved block assembly, 3D block assembly cells
	Pipe fabrication shop
	Electrical shop
	Shipwright shop
	Machine shop
	Outfitting shops
	Blast cells
	Paint cells
	Equipment storage shed
	Inflammable and paint stores
	Transport workshop

In addition, the Shipyard’s utility infrastructure includes the following:

	2 x 66 KVA power line along with switchyard, transmission and distribution systems
	Water pipeline and fire fighting system along with pumps, overhead tanks and pumping systems
	Low pressure compressed air system
	Infrastructure relating to consumable gases such as O2, CO2, LPG and nitrogen