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Kolkata: Union Ministry of Shipping will set up a ship repairing facility at Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) in Garden Reach, where the Cochin Shipyard will work in collaboration with the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT). After Cochin Shipyard, this would be the second centre in the country with such a facility, the minister said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ship repairing facility, while attending a programme organised by the Kolkata Port Trust to commemorate its 150th anniversary, Mandaviya said. The minister also said that Cochin Shipyard will provide infrastructural support and expertise to the Kolkata Port Trust. Once the repairing centre is made operational, the cargo ships would be repaired here in Kolkata..