Wuhu Shipyard Co., Ltd was founded in 1900, and has a history of 118 years. The shipyard originally located in the city center. From 2012 the shipyard gradually moved to the new site in the suburb, where a modernized shipyard was constructed. So far the new yard has had perfect shipbuilding facilities with size of 1.2 million sqm, including two building berths(240m×40m each) for ships up to 80,000DWT, one out fitting quay of 740m long, one indoor hull shop, one section fabrication shop, one piping fabrication shop and a totally-enclosed coating shop, which are equipped with computerized ultra-thick plasma cutting machine, large-size three-roll bending machine, 450T SWL gantry crane, 150T SWL gantry crane and other advanced shipbuilding equipment. The shipyard has built various types of ships, such as 18,000/24,000 dwt heavy-lift vessels, 20,000 dwt multipurpose vessel, 16,500 dwt open hatch boxed shaped bulk carrier, 30,000 dwt double-skin bulk carrier, 64,000-82,000 dwt bulk carriers, 5,000 HP icebreaking work vessel, 64-79m PSV, 28,000 dwt oil-chemical tanker, 28,000 dwt duplex stainless steel chemical tanker, 800 vehicle ro-ro ship, etc.more