Hanwha Ocean Geoje Shipyard

Hanwha Ocean's Geoje shipyard occupies a 4.9 million square metre site on Geoje island in South Korea and builds commercial vessels, offshore facilities and naval ships. Two dry docks carry the building programme. Dock 1 takes vessels of up to one million deadweight tonnes and offshore plants of up to 120 metres wide and 130 metres high, and is served by a 900-tonne Goliath gantry crane, a 200-tonne jib crane, six further jib cranes of 50 to 200 tonnes and 60-tonne tower cranes. Dock 2 is also rated to one million deadweight tonnes and to plants up to 80 metres wide, carries a second 900-tonne Goliath crane and three 50-tonne tower cranes, and is used for very large container ships, car carriers and product tankers. A floating dock launches vessels of up to Suezmax size and serves for relaunching and repair of naval ships and of medium and large vessels including LNG carriers of 78,000 tonnes. Water depth at the outfitting quay is 11 to 14 metres, served by jib cranes of 30 to 50 tonnes and a 60-tonne travelling tower crane. Production runs through a cutting plant, three assembly plants, a small parts assembly plant, pre-outfitting, surface treatment and painting plants, a separate painting and surface treatment plant for LNG carriers, a maritime outfitting plant and three maritime manufacturing plants, the largest of which is served by 250-tonne and 50-tonne overhead cranes. Painting cells take blocks of 40 by 40 metres, and 55 by 40 metres for LNG carrier work. Twenty to thirty large blocks of 300 tonnes are produced daily across four assembly plants; a 300,000-tonne tanker is assembled from some 120 small blocks forming about 80 large blocks of roughly 780 tonnes each, lifted by the Goliath cranes, with blocks of 10 metres and above assembled to a tolerance of two millimetres. The steel stockyard covers 45,000 square metres. The commercial line rests on the yard's own LNG technology, the offshore line on production facilities and platforms, and the naval line on some thirty years of warship building, including the KSS-III submarine programme, unmanned surface and underwater systems and autonomous navigation work. Products named by the company include the first LNG regasification vessel, LNG icebreakers and LNG floating production units. A technical education institute has operated on the site since 1973 and holds a state Order of Industrial Service Merit, a design integration building was completed in April 2011, and a one-year warranty follows delivery.