Sungdong Bags Shipbuilding Contract with Malaysian Company

South Korean – based company Sungdong Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has secured a contract for the construction of ten livestock carrier vessels. The future owner of the ships, the Malaysian company PBHH (Pembangunan Buka Jijau Holdings Sdn. Bhd) organized an impressive event with a signing ceremony that took place at the Royal Culan in Kuala Lumpur.

In the presence of members of the government of Malaysia, several other VIP’s and high level representatives from the food and shipping industry the contracts were signed between BPHH/BH live stock and Sungdong (shipbuilding contracts), Sungdong and Groot Ship Design (design and engineering contracts), Sungdong and bureau Veritas (classification contract).

Remarkable is that a Korean shipyard has contracted a Dutch design office for the delivery of designs for new cargo ships.

Groot Ship Design will made for the Korean shipyard Sundong two concept designs, a design for the transport of 7000 cows (Livestock carrier 7000) and a design for the transport of 11000 cows (Livestock carrier 11000). Of each type the Korean yard will build 5 vessels for PBHH/BH Livestock.

SUNGDONG Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has positioned itself as a trustworthy partner for ship owners around the world by building ships with the finest quality. Based on its 20 year experience in the shipbuilding and related businesses such as manufacturing shipbuilding material and blocks, SUNGDONG was incorporated with the goal of building “ships for people”. Sungdong Shipbuilding comes as the No 5 shipyard in Korea with approx 8500 employees and is one the most modern shipyards of its kind.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, May 16, 2012;