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Hudong Shipyard
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group

Major surface combatant shipyards are located in Dalian, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hudong. Hudong Shipyard is one of the largest key enterprises of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Situated at the Pudong Developing Zone and on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, Hudong Shipyard is well known for building and repairing various types of military and merchant ships up to 120,000dwt and marine diesel engines of low and medium speed up to 23,000kw.

As of mid-2000 Hudong Shipyard and Zhonghua Shipyard, two major ship builders in Shanghai, were negotiating a merger.

Hudong Shipyard was founded in 1928 and renamed as the present in 1952. It has been developing since the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Hudong Shipbuilding Group was organized in 1996 as Hudong Shipyard as its core enterprise. Today, Hudong Shipyard covers an area of 870,000 m2 and the Group has more than 11,000 staff members, among who are over 2800 technicians, marine engineers and naval architects.

Important and large scale reconstruction and expansion have been taken four times in the history of Hudong Shipyard. Especially in the last time beginning from 1985, a new large slipway, a new ball-spraying and painting workshop and a new hull cutting and welding workshop had been completed. Equipped with two large slipways, eight medium horizontal berths and more than 4,100 sets of different kinds of machinery, Hudong Shipyard has the productive capability of 500,000dwt ships and 250,000kw diesel engines per year with the steel consumption of 80,000 tons.

In the respect of shipbuilding, Hudong Shipyard has completed different types of ships, such as 2,500 ton passenger-cargo vessel; 27,000 ton, 36,000 ton, 47,500 ton, 70,000 ton, 73,000 ton and 74,500 ton bulk carriers; 62,200 ton, 68,000 ton, 68,600 ton and 71,000 ton crude oil tankers; 4,999 ton product oil tanker; 2,700 TEU reefer container; 1,714 TEU container; 29,750 ton full-formed coal carrier with ultra-shallow-draft; 2942/6178kw anchor handling tug supply vessels; 52,000 ton floating production storage unit, for the customers both at home and abroad, such as Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Chile, Thailand, Singapore, Norway.

In respect to diesel engine making, Hudong Shipyard has successively introduced the technical licenses from B & W, Denmark, SEMT, France, New Sulzer Diesel Ltd. Switzerland, and manufactured a great number of medium and low speed marine diesel engines of different types under the licenses. Meanwhile, the shipyard itself has also developed 390E, 34/82, 43/82 types of medium and low speed diesel engines. In 1998, the marine diesel engine sector was merged with the same sector of Shanghai Shipyard into Hudong Heavy Engine Co. Ltd., whose shares are publicly listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange.