China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. is a major Chinese state-owned shipbuilding and ship repair enterprise founded in 1952 and located on the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Operating as a subsidiary of China Merchants Industry, the company runs two factories at Nanjing and Yizheng covering a total area of around 1.23 million square metres with two kilometres of fitting-out quay, eight 50,000 DWT slipways, dry docks of 100,000 and 200,000 deadweight tons, three fitting-out piers, and nine heavy-lift cranes rated up to 500 tons.
Production capability covers most merchant ship types, including roll-on roll-off vessels, chemical and product tankers, cement carriers, bulk carriers, container ships, multi-purpose heavy-lift carriers, gas carriers, floating docks, semi-submersible vessels, and offshore platform supply ships. Marine service activity coordinated through the yard includes hatch cover ultrasonic tightness testing, watertight integrity verification of hatches, doors, and closing appliances, and underwater inspection of submerged hull, rudder, and propeller areas during in-service surveys and post-repair verification work. Annual newbuild capacity reaches around two million deadweight tons.
Jinling Shipyard holds Grade One Class I Steel Ship Manufacturing Enterprise qualification, the highest national shipbuilding rating in China, and was among the first yards to pass review under the national Standard Conditions for Shipping Enterprises programme. The yard works to DNV class rules and was awarded a DNV Approval in Principle for an eleven-thousand-CEU pure car and truck carrier design, alongside parallel quality, environmental, occupational health, and energy management system certifications. The Nanjing position on the Yangtze gives access to the wider river port cluster and to deep-water transit toward Shanghai.
