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Shipping Industry Will Expand Tank Coating Capability by Taking
Tank Coating Project for newly-built Aframax Type Tanker
Tank coating for oil
tanker is one of the competitiveness of China Shipping Industry.
Shanghai Feng Da Coating Engineering Co., Ltd. (Feng Da), held
and managed by China Shipping Industry, has won a high reputation
among the tanker owners worldwide and takes competitive advantages
in tank coating technology, quality, service and duration, etc..
Recently One project is in progress by China Shipping Industry
in an aim to assist Feng Da to complete tank coating works of
56,000 sq.m. for newly-built Aframax type tanker within a period
of 35 days through co-operation with facilities supplier. The
project includes reforming one quay in Shanghai Port especially
for tank coating works. That quay could accommodate 240 mtr. long
Aframax type tanker,equipped with several 20t.capacity quay cranes
and one 4000 KVA power station. China Shipping Industry intends
to reach the target before September, 2002. By the time China
Shipping Industry would have got more than half of tank coating
facilities and equipments for above mentioned works
Re-organization of
Shanghai GD Chang Xing Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. by China Shipping
Industry Co., Ltd.
China Shipping Industry
Co., Ltd. has officially taken over Shanghai GD Chang Xing Marine
Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereafter named GD Chang Xing) upon previous
negotiations & re-structuring. GD Chang Xing is geographically
located at the South bank of Chang Xing Island, Shanghai, 31 degrees
north latitude and 121 degrees east longit-ude, 7.5 km from Shanghai
Pudong area which is at the other bank of Huang Pu River, and
30 nautical miles from the estuary of Yangtse Rive on western
of the East ChinaSea where is the Shanghai port entry. T. It's
the hub of the Yangtze Delta.
GD Chang Xing was
firstly constructed in the year of 1997 and at the April of 1999
it was formally put into service. After property restructuring
it officially joined in China Shipping Group at the beginning
of 2003. As its owner and major investor, China Shipping
Industry Co., Ltd. (hereafter named China Shipping Industry) leaded
reform and reorganization in GD Chang Xing's management and administration.
At present, the reorganization and restructuring is completed,
GD Chang Xing has become a legal entity of joint venture capable
of providing ship-repairing services to ship-owners.
The 70,000 tonnage floating dock "China Shipping Pu Tuo Shan"
is under the management of GD Chang Xing. At the same time, total
six ship-repairing docks in China Shipping Industry's three Shanghai
shipyards give full supports to GD Chang Xing's ship-repairing
business besides well serving their own shipyards. Depending on
resources of China Shipping Group especially brand resource and
advantaged management and technology in China Shipping Industry,
GD Chang Xing is able to provide high quality services to ship-owners.
The shiprepairing wharf of GD Chang Xing has water depth of minus
10 to minus 16 meters (excluding tide) and river area of 1000
meters, VLCC of 340 meters in length can turn around on-site.
It has privileged location and appropriate water depth, the actually
used water-front is 3000 meters, and a 400 meters ship-repairing
wharf for 200,000 tonnage vessel has already put into service.
The floating dock "China Shipping Pu Tuo Shan" has lifting capacity
of 22,000 ton. The water conditions in GD Chang Xing are also
ideal for servicing ocean engineering such as conversion of drilling
platform and FPSO other than repairing large vessels.
Upon the take-over
of GD Chang Xing, China Shipping Industry will further expand
its scale and capability timely. The strategic goal of China Shipping
Group is to re-construct it to a first grade large ship-repairing
base in five years as stated in China Shipping 10th "Five Year
Planning".
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