About Us

Company Profile

The Dathawala Group of Companies have been a pioneer and have a deep-rooted experience in the industry of Ship recycling at Alang, Bhavnagar for almost a period of three and a half decades since 1982. Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. In the past three and a half decades, its beaches have become a major worldwide centre for ship recycling. We are indulged into Ship recycling business since its inception in India.

We have progressed in leaps and bounds in the same business. We have been holding three major plots at Ship Recycling Yard situated at Alang in the name and style of our three firms namely Panchvati Ship Breakers, Sagaralaxmi Ship Breakers and Kamdar & Associates. The very first vessel demolished was DIDIER. Till date a total of more than 200 vessels have been recycled, arising to a total of approximate 1,230,000 MT.
In addition to the ship recycling business we are also into the business of real estate, construction and Ingot manufacturing and wish to diversify in all the best promising opportunities that come our way.

Our vision is to achieve the peak position in the Ship Recycling Industry by providing enhanced services, relationships and profitability. Our vision is to contribute towards sustainable development. We have been efficacious in achieving expertise in the industry of ship recycling and have a long sighted vision to maintain the same for the years to come.


One of the early achievements and the most valued one is that in the First part of 80s, the process of establishing ship recycling industry at Alang started getting momentum. After completing the majority of formalities connected with the industry, in 1982, the main question was the availability of workers. At that time, the founder of our companies Mr. Shivlal J. Padia (Dathawala) had started making efforts to hiring workers from Darukhana area of Mumbai, and he succeeded in his efforts by bringing 13 workers at Alang. Till date since then we have retained 3 of those 13 workers working at our plots.