Vietnamese shipbuilding
Central yard with central role
Dung Quat will become a centre for VLCC construction.
V
inashin is investing US$40 million in tandem VLCC and Handymax construction, Quoc Anh said that the facility already had
building ten facilities to support the for completion within 20 months. By 2012, the a full orderbook stretching to 2012, with
Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industrial facility will employ 10,000 workers. 12 VLCCs, eight Aframax tankers, and 10
Plant, its most ambitious shipbuilding centre Petrovietnam has already signed letters of Handymax bulk carriers on order for the
to date, in central Vietnam, at the Quang Ngai intent covering the construction of what will yard.
Province economic zone. be the nation’s first pair of 300,000dwt-plus He declined to discuss the identity of any
Local reports suggest that the new facilities VLCCs. owners involved in ordering ships from the
will focus on manufacturing engines, pumping Vinashin chief business officer, Nguyen yard.
equipment, boilers, and lifting equipment. The 120hectare Dung Quat site is not
The first drydock at Dung Quat, a 354m the largest shipbuilding facility planned for
long by 83m wide by 14m deep facility, is Vietnam, but it is the largest currently under
due to open at the end of 2008, in time to construction. With a sea front of 1km, and
take forward the completion of a first of three including 130,000m
2
of covered workshops,
105,000dwt Aframax tankers, the first two the yard will employ two 350tonne capacity
of which will be for Vinashin itself, through gantry cranes, as well as two 150tonne rotating
Vinalines. Construction on the first ship has cranes. Its production machinery will include
already started. These 245m long by 43m wide two steel treatment and panel lines, five CNC
by 20m deep ships will be dual classed by ABS cutting mills, and two hydraulic presses. NA
and the Vietnam Register.
The facility will be geared up to build one
Aframax tanker and one Handymax bulk
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carrier in tandem. The intention is to build a a welder training at the dung Quat yard.
second, 520m long by 110m wide drydock, for picture courtesy of abs.
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