Feature 1
continuous improvement in its production
processes. ‘Vietnam is a fast developing
country,’ said Mr Truong. ‘When
supervisors from the owners and the class
societies give their requirements, we try
our best to meet them, and also always have
in mind that we have to develop more and
more. We do not force the class societies
and owners to follow our requirements.
Instead, we take a step by step approach,
following their requirements strictly
and carefully, because we are trying to
meet their requirements on quantity and
quality.
‘We are new in the field of shipbuilding
for export and we are still learning many
lessons.’
Mr Truong said that the shipbuilder was
operating its own training college, which
processed around 1000 workers per year.
Meanwhile, to date, it is fair to point
out that all basic and detailed designs
have simply been bought in. However,
Mr Truong said steps were being taken
to build design knowledge in-house. ‘We
have established a technical department of
over 40 engineers,’ he said, ‘and we have
also bought some designs from overseas
for study, and in the future we will have to Launch of a 20,000dwt general cargo ship for Vinashin Maritime Co (Vinashinship), due
design for ourselves. We also have a joint delivery in December 2007 (picture courtesy of ABS).
venture with the shipbuilding department
of the Vietnam Maritime University
covering technical designs: in the future drydock planned, the yard will be which is due to completed by 2012-2013.
we will be able to offer complete designs capable of building 26 ocean-going The facility will have the same capacity
and system designs.’ ships a year, focusing on vessels of as Song Gia.
Also, like other Vietnamese yards, between 50,000dwt and 70,000dwt The creation of these two facilities will
current developments simply scratch on the slipways, and ships of around see the corporation overseeing Pha Rung
the surface of the ambitions laid out 100,000dwt in the drydock. and its partner yards taking control of
for management at the Pha Rung yard Priority is being given to workshops, the management and dredging of the
which, by the end of 2007, will transform with some set to be in production as Haiphong River, while Mr Truong also
itself into the Pha Rung Shipbuilding early as 2008, by when the drydock and said that all three shipyards would be
Industries Corp, a company with 25 a first slipway, equipped with a 450tonne served by a newly constructed plant
subsidiaries. capacity crane, are due to enter initial whose role it would be to build blocks.
Mr Truong envisaged an additional operations. From then on, work on future Furthermore, the shipbuilder was
move into drilling rigs for the existing Diamond 34 vessels will be transferred to overseeing the construction of a
facilities, but Pha Rung Shipyard Co is also Song Gia. completely new 230hectare port and
overseeing the creation of two massive new With 2500 workers at the current industrial zone, at Dinh Vu, which was
neighbouring shipyards. Construction has facility, the new yard will need a staff of due to be operational in 2009. With
already begun on the first of these, known between 5000 and 6000 to become fully 630m of quay, and served by its own
as Song Gia Shipyard, right next to the operational. Mr Truong said a number container freight station, the port would
existing yard. At 100hectares, this facility of the existing workforce would transfer operate as a general cargo and container
will be three times the size of the current across to the new yard when the time handling facility, receiving vessels of up
yard, with the project due to be complete comes, so that the expansion could be to 20,000dwt, and would serve as an
by 2011 at the latest. Song Gia and Pha pursued on a ‘two stream’ training basis. import hub for shipyards, but also as a
Rung will operate under one corporation. Also on the cards is the creation of the general purpose facility for third parties.
With two new slipways and a single Yen Hung Shipyard, alongside Song Gia, NA
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