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It was the first gantry crane designed and built in China. [7] In May 2008, two 600-ton gantry cranes collapsed during a lifting operation, killing three and injuring another two. [8] In September 2017, Hudong-Zhonghua was contracted to build five of nine [9] 23,000 TEU [10] Jacques Saadé-class container ships. [10]
In 1964, the Sixth Ministry of Machine Building was created [8] to oversee China's shipbuilding enterprises, which were predominantly engaged in military work. [9] In July 1982, [10] as part of defence industry reforms and "defence conversions", the ministry was converted into the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. [9]
Ship building and repair enterprises and related equipment manufacturers formerly owned by CSSC in areas of Dalian, Tianjin, Wuhan, Kunming and Xi’an, together with majority of the institutes under China Ship Research & Development Academy, formed China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), which was founded on 1 July 1999 in Beijing.
China has also made rapid progress on the construction of the world’s largest amphibious assault ship, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
"The Chinese Navy, not by tonnage, but by numbers is now larger than the U.S. Navy. China has something like 250 times the ship building capacity that America does."
A Philippine navy patrol ship was shadowed by Chinese forces near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, sparking a fresh exchange of accusations and warnings between the Asian neighbors Tuesday.
The market share of European ship builders began to decline in the 1960s as they lost work to Japan in the same way Japan most recently lost their work to South Korea and China. Over the four years from 2007, the total number of employees in the European shipbuilding industry declined from 150,000 to 115,000. [ 76 ]
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's military on Monday said a U.S. Navy ship illegally entered waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed South China Sea atoll that has recently seen several ...