Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. unveiled one of the three super-size container ships ordered by the Transportation Bank of China to be leased to Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC), a shipping company in Switzerland, at its Okpo Shipyard on Goeje Island on Jan. 8.
The super container carrier, named MSC Oscar, is able to load 19,224 TEU (one TEU is 6 meters long), and will be turned over to the MSC shortly in a ceremony at the shipyard. The new container ship is as large as four soccer fields and the number of the containers that the carrier can load would stretch for 115 km, the same as the distance from Okpo to Ulsan in Korea and is equipped with Pure Dry equipment to reduce the fuel consumption for the first time in the world, officials of the shipyard said.
Started in 1973 at Okpo Bay, Geoje Island, the DSME shipyard was completed in 1981. It is located on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula. DSME has since grown into the world's premium shipbuilding and offshore contractor, specializing in building various vessels, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, FPSO/FPUs, submarines and destroyers.
Daewoo Shipbuilding, in the meantime, successfully jacked up the top side of the Wheatstone platform, which weigh 37,000 tons. That’s equivalent to 1,500 dump trucks. The company has been building it since November for Chevron. The shipyard won the order to build Wheatstone platform for natural gas drilling and refining in November, 2011.
Daewoo Shipbuilding officials said the company successfully jacked up the 45,000 ton Acunda topside in 2013, setting a record, which still stands today.
They will continue to work hard on marine structure to make it satisfactory to the owner when it is delivered, they said.
DSME manufactures high-quality products based on its vast IT expertise, well-managed shipbuilding technologies, superb fixed-platform construction capacities, large-scale project management know-how and submarine/destroyer construction technologies.
Since being reborn as an independent company in October 2000, DSME has been creating a corporate culture on the core values of trust and passion.
DSME defines "trust" as building partnerships and confidence with colleagues and within the organization through mutual respect and consideration, winning customer loyalty by honesty and promise-keeping, and strengthening trust between the employees and the company through transparent management.
DSME defines "passion" as completing each task with determination and persistence, being responsible for one's actions with a sense of ownership, seeking continuous improvement for higher values instead of being complacent, and spreading the wings of self-actualization.
KOGAS reported the final bid result for the LNG carrier on Oct. 17. The bidding was essential in deciding the construction and management company of these LNG carriers, which will transport liquefied shale gas from the Sabine Pass port in the U.S to Korea. KOGAS has a plan to build a total of six new LNG carriers.
DSME was chosen as the construction contractor for building four initial LNG carriers.
