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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Newly Built Dock

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance to the newly built Dock No. 2 at the Ryongnam Ship Repair Factory. He was accompanied by Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet. He was greeted on the spot by Kim Yong Il, minister of Land and Marine Transport, and leading officials of the factory.
    Dock No. 2 is a modern computerized large dock capable of repairing several ships of tens of thousands of tons simultaneously.
    Its repair processes have been furnished with uptodate equipment and put on an automation and IT basis to markedly shorten the period of ship repair and improve its quality, while saving a lot of manpower.
    In hearty response to the instruction given by Kim Jong Il to build Dock No. 2 to increase the ship repairing capacity the officials, workers and technicians of the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport have waged a high-pitched drive and thus wrought such miracle as successfully completing the vast construction projects including a big dock, three wharves to handle and repair large cargo ships, a combined repair shop, an acetylene generating shop, an oxygen generating shop, a heavy oil-fired power plant, a wind-power station and solar power station of peculiar style, houses for hundreds of families and cultural and welfare establishments in a matter of four years by their own efforts.
    He mounted an observation platform and commanded a bird's-eye view of the factory the appearance of which has changed beyond recognition. Going round the dock, he acquainted himself with its construction and operation.
    He highly appreciated the feats performed by the officials, workers and technicians of the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport, noting it is great success that they set an ambitious goal to build a ship repair base of eternal value by their own efforts and undertook the construction in a big way, thereby carrying out the vast task ahead of schedule and making a big contribution to the nation's economic development.
    The reconstructed and expanded Ryongnam Ship Repair Factory is of weighty importance in developing the nation's marine transport, he said, setting forth tasks to be fulfilled to manage and operate the factory.
    Noting that the factory is located in a good place and has a good prospect of its development, he underscored the need for it to have all processes necessary for the ship repair and actively introduce advanced technology in order to steadily boost the repair capacity.
    The factory should undertake the job of repairing foreign cargo ships, too, in the future as it has a big capacity, he said, adding that to this end it should have sufficient facilities to serve foreign crew members.
    Then he acquainted himself with how the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport constructed a new container terminal at Nampho port. He was greatly satisfied to learn that it has built a modern container terminal capable of handling cargo ships of tens of thousands of tons to increase the capacity of Nampho port to meet the growing demand for marine transport.
    Nampho port is one of the important trading ports of the country, he noted, underlining the need to step up the modernization of the port to steadily boost the transport capacity.