The company
Thirty-two years of buying iron off ships and putting it back to work.
Haroon and Faruk Gundigara started Akil Corporation in 1994, buying marine machinery from the ship recycling yard at Alang, 40 km from Bhavnagar. The yard is the largest in the world and a ship arrives to be cut most days, so a steady stream of engines, gensets and spares comes off hulls and onto the beach. The firm's job has always been the same: pick the machinery worth saving, test it, store it properly, and supply it to the ship operators, power plants and rebuilders who need it.
Today that is 84 lines on the floor across 26 makers, 39 of them complete engines and gensets, held in four warehouses including a bonded, duty-free floor in the Kandla SEZ. The second generation runs the technical and commercial sides.
Caterpillar 3516C genset, 1603 kW at 1200 rpm. Old and used, good and reusable. Mamsa.
What we do
Four lines of work
- 1Emergency spares supplyComplete engines and a wide range of spares from ready stock. Air, sea or courier, to the port or agent you name.
- 2Technical inspectionInspection service with techno-commercial reports before you commit, on our stock or on a unit you are buying elsewhere.
- 3Power solutionsGensets on turnkey, EPC and rental terms with complete output responsibility and performance guarantee.
- 4Ship recycling purchasesBuying machinery off hulls at Alang since 1994. If it ran on a ship, we have probably handled one.
Procedure
Nothing turns without a report
A used crankshaft is only as good as the paperwork with it. Every crankshaft in stock is checked four ways before we call it reusable, and the report ships with the part. Heads, liners, rods and pumps get the equivalent inspection on request.
Crankshafts in stock- 1CalibrationEvery main journal and crank pin measured and recorded against the maker's STD and undersize tables.
- 2HardnessHardness test on every journal and pin surface. Values on the report.
- 3MPI crack testMagnetic particle inspection under UV light on all journals, pins and fillets. Non-destructive.
- 4Run-outCrankshaft set on V-blocks on two main journals and rotated under a dial gauge to check straightness.
Where the stock lives
Four floors, one coast
- Bhavnagar officeAdmin, sales, documents
- Navapara, opposite Madina Baug, DSP Office Road, Bhavnagar 364001, Gujarat
Where the deal is done and the paperwork leaves from.
- Mamsa warehouseMain stock, engines and heavy parts
- Plot 3, near Jain Derasar, Rev. Survey 184, Village Mamsa, Taluka Ghogha, Bhavnagar 364002
Visits by appointment. Cranes on site.
- Alang warehouseYard-side receiving and inspection
- Behind TCI Transport, B/h Plot 451, Outside Custom Gate, Alang, Bhavnagar 364150
At the gate of the world's largest ship recycling yard. Parts come off a hull and onto our floor the same day.
- Kandla SEZ warehouseDuty-free export stock
- Kandla Special Economic Zone, Near Mundra Port, Kutch, Gujarat
Bonded, duty-free. Re-export without customs duty, direct to vessel at Mundra or Kandla.
How we work
Four rules the family runs on
- Say what it isUsed is called used. Reusable means it passed the checks. If a part is marginal, we say so before you pay, not after it lands.
- Hold stock, not promisesWe quote from our own floor. A photo on this site is a photo of a part we own, in a warehouse we can walk into today.
- AnswerPhones and WhatsApp are answered by the family, in working hours and often outside them. A vessel does not wait for Monday.
- Finish the jobTest, pack, document, ship, and pick up the phone if the agent at the other end has a question.
People
The Gundigaras
You will speak to one of these four. There is no sales floor between you and the people who own the stock.
- Faruk GundigaraManaging Director and CEO
- Haroon GundigaraCo-founder and Proprietor
- Akil GundigaraTechnical Specialist
- Saad GundigaraMarketing
Come and see it.
Buyers and surveyors are welcome at Mamsa and Alang by appointment. Bhavnagar has an airport with daily flights from Mumbai; say when you land.