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Synergy Shipbuilders, founded by DMET graduate Shriram Malik, leads aluminium shipbuilding

Shriram Malik, a marine engineer who graduated from DMET in 1967, founded the Goa shipyard that now leads India in aluminium vessels.
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Shipyard workers stand under the three large propellers of the liner RMS Olympic in a dry dock.
Harland & Wolff (unknown photographer) / Wikimedia Commons

Shriram Malik worked offshore for some years and then returned to Goa. In 1988 he founded Synergy Shipbuilders N Dock Works. The yard has since built more than 100 vessels. The article is an interview with his son.

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