China: SF Shipyard Books Order for Four Bulk Carriers

Recently, Taizhou Sanfu shipyard received a new order for building four 51.000 DWT Bulk Carriers, which should be delivered between the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014 as per the contract. The newly-received order is placed by a Chinese ship owner with Sanfu shipyard. These serial vessels to be built are mainly for domestic offshore transportation.

Against the backdrop of sluggish shipping market world-widely, this new order has become the fist large-scale one that Sanfu has received over the past year, which is of utmost significance.

It is known to all that over the past month, the production situation is thriving, such as the successful delivery of No. 2 and No.3 16.9000 DWT BCs respectively, the Naming Ceremony for No.4 16.900 DWT BC，the successful launching for No. 7 16.900 DWT BC, the sea trail for one 12000 DWT MPC being carried out according to the schedule, and the steel-cutting for one 51.000 DWT BC.

Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd is a robust large-scale ship-building company. As early as 2006, it was ranked as one of “Jiangsu Top 10 Shipbuilding Enterprises”. Now the shipyard has more than seven thousand employees and subcontracting team workers, among whom more than eight hundred are welders who obtained certificates certified by classification societies from home and abroad and over five hundred are engineers and technicians in different engineering fields including one hundred and twenty secondary and senior professional and technical staffs. Taizhou Sanfu shipyard is capable of building a great variety of Bulk Carriers, Container Vessels, MPC Vessels, and Oil Tankers/Chemical Vessels under 100,000 DWT, Tug boats, Ocean Engineering Vessels and Pipe Laying Barges under 10,000HP as well as all kinds of Deck Barges under 50,000 DWT. At present, main products include 6500DWT Bulk Carrier, 12000 DWT MPC Vessel, 57000 DWT Bulk Carrier,16500 DWT Product Oil/Chemical Tanker,16800 DWT Oil Tanker/Chemical Vessel,92500 DWT Bulk Carrier, 16900 DWT Bulk Carrier and 200’-450’ Deck Barge etc.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, April 16, 2012; Image: sfshipyard