Damen Shipyards Changde is part of the Damen Shipyards Group of the Netherlands. Today, Damen Shipyards Changde is a state-of-the-art shipyard that mainly focuses on building tugs, workboats, high-speed vessels and dredgers for the export market worldwide. Talent is of course, the most important resource of any enterprise. The wealth of talent at Damen Shipyards Changde means we can innovate, add value to our products and in turn, make sure we have a sustainable business. With decades of know-how and experience behind us, the highest quality, international standards are ensured. The Damen quality standards are evident wherever we build vessels in the world. Certification is carried out by leading classification societies such as Lloyd’s Register, DNV and Bureau Veritas and this stimulates us to implement even more far reaching, in-house quality programmes to enhance all company processes. However, we do not take our performance for granted. Damen always endeavours to exceed our current level of performance to ensure we remain ahead of our competitors. And even though the standardised concept is fundamental to Damen, we can also customise any vessel according to customers’ wishes. Damen Shipyards Changde is supported and backed by all the other Damen companies and the group headquarters in Gorinchem in the Netherlands. Damen’s after-sales service and support is highly respected. Our customers benefit from having the support of the whole group and they can choose from a broad-ranging service portfolio. Our aim is simply to build the best, top quality vessels at competitive prices and with quick delivery times. Damen Shipyards Changde has a very special corporate culture, combining the best of Eastern and Western enterprise values. And indeed, even though the Damen Shipyards Group has some 8,000 employees, Damen is still a family-owned company with a deep respect for the traditional values of the maritime world.more

Afai Southern Shipyard (Panyu Guangzhou) Ltd., located at the eastern side of Xinguang Bridge of Guangzhou, China, and the south bank of the Pearl River main channel, founded in 1992 and assets-reorganized in 2004, is the largest scale supplier to professionally design and build high performance aluminum alloy ships. There are a number of excellent professionals in the company for designing and manufacturing aluminium alloy ships including 1 senior engineer of professor-class, 5 senior engineers, over 40 professionals of middle and junior level, 180 skilled workers of middle and high level, totally over 300 staff, average age 29 years old. “Pragmatic and Efficient, Enterprising and Discipline” are the corporate spirit of Afai Soputhern; “Cultivate the top-rate talent, construct the top-rate shipyard, build the top-rate ship, set up top rate brand” are the corporate development tenet; “Human-oriented; Harmoniously developing” are the team conception of Afai Southern culture. The company sets up and operates GB/T19001-2008 Quality Management System, GB/T28001-2011 Occupational Health and Safety Managements System and GB/T24001-2004 Environment Management System, carrys out the standardization management of Clean Production and Safe Production, warrants the product quality, worships the corporation harmony, implements the social responsibility. The main business of the company is reserching, designing and building the high performance aluminium alloy ships, is at leading position in the domestic market of aluminium alloy fast ferries, public vessels and professional rescue vessels.more