SHI(Samsung Heavy Industries) (Geoje)

Korea (South) / Kyongsangnam / Sinhyon / Geoje
 shipyard, production
Samsung Heavy Industries or SHI (Korean: 삼성중공업, Hanja: 三星重工業 is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea. A core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI has its main focus on shipbuilding, offshore floaters, digital devices for ships and construction & engineering concerns.

The Geoje Shipyard is SHI's largest shipyard in South Korea, boasts the highest dock turnover rate in the world. The largest of the three docks, Dock No.3, is 640m long, 97.5m wide, and 13m deep. Mostly ultra-large ships are built at this dock, having the world’s highest production efficiency with yearly dock turnover rate of 10 and the launch of 30 ships per year.

SHI specializes in the building of high added-value and special purpose vessels, including LNG carriers, off-shore related vessels, oil drilling ships, FPSO/FSO's, ultra Large container ships and Arctic shuttle tankers. In recent times SHI has concentrated on LNG tankers and drillships, for which it is the market leader.

Supertanker Seri Amanah, a LNG carrier, was built here. This shipyard was featured in National Geographic Channel’s program “Megastructures”.

www.shi.samsung.co.kr/eng
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Heavy_Industries
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Coordinates:   34°54'23"N   128°35'48"E

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  • I saw it in a Discovery channel documental, Amazing!!
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