[1][2] Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British East India Company to build ships and docks in Bombay in 1736.
[4] This, and subsequent efforts, would result in Bombay becoming one of the most strategically important ports for the British in Asia.
[4] Lovji is considered the founder of the shipping and shipbuilder industry in Bombay.
To this day, Surat remains the largest break-up beaching port (where ships are stripped and disassembled) in the world.
[5] The first Atash Adaran in India was established in Siganpur, near Surat, by Lovji Wadia, around 1760.