Yiulian Dockyards (Shekou) Ltd.

Yiulian Dockyards (Shekou) Ltd. is a ship repair and conversion yard on Mazhou Island at Mawan, in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen. It is one of four Yiu Lian dockyards inside China Merchants Industry, which places all four in its ship repair and conversion business; newbuilding in the group belongs to separate companies, and this yard carries no newbuilding orderbook. The yard shares Mazhou Island with China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen), which builds ships there, and municipal accounts of the island count four docks and ten berths for the two companies together. Yiulian's own docking capacity is two graving docks and two floating docks, Yiu Lian No.3 and No.4. Work covers steel renewal, coating, machinery maintenance, oil tank conversion and offshore repair and conversion. Across the Yiu Lian dockyards the group's emphasis is on LNG, LPG and LEG carrier retrofitting and on FPSO, FSO and FSRU conversion, and a sister yard operates at Zhoushan.