Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd or SHI (Korean: 삼성중공업, Hanja: 三星重工業) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea. A major core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI has its main focus on shipbuilding, offshore floaters, digital devices for ships and construction & engineering concerns.
SHI operates manufacturing facilities at home and abroad, including ship block fabrication factories in Ningbo and Rongcheng, China. The Geoje Shipyard in particular, SHI's largest shipyard, boasts the highest dock turnover rate in the world. The largest of the three docks, Dock No.3, is 640m long, 97.5m wide, and 13m deep. Mostly ultra-large ships are built at this dock, having the world's highest production efficiency with yearly dock turnover rate of 10 and the launch of 30 ships per year.
SHI specializes in the building of high added-value and special purpose vessels, including LNG carriers, off-shore related vessels, oil drilling ships, ultra Large container ships and Arctic shuttle tankers.
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