Yiu Lian Dockyards Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Merchants Holdings Co Ltd. It is one of the largest dockyards in Hong Kong. The area of Yiu Lian in Hong Kong is about 130,000 square meters, with 15,000 square meters of well-equipped workshops and over 900 meters of berths. The three well-equipped workshops and two floating docks in Yiu Lian can accommodate vessels of 35,000 DWT and 150,000 DWT capacity respectively. Yiu Lian has a shipyard in Shekou Economic Zone in Shenzhen, China as well. The shipyard has an area of more than 94,000 square meters and ship repair berths of more than 650 meters, a modern newly built workshop of more than 7,000 square meters and two floating docks, which can accommodate vessels of 40,000 DWT and 80,000 DWT capacity respectively. Besides, Yiu Lian has also had a yard in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, China with a 16,000 DWT capacity floating dock. With more than 30 years of experience and the comprehensive facilities, Yiu Lian undertakes a wide range of repair work from annual and special surveys, damage and emergency repairs to highly sophisticated conversions for all kinds of vessels, including oil rigs, dredgers, hovercrafts, catamarans and geophysical vessels.more

Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited(GSI) was found in 1993, is the first listed shipbuilding company in China. It is a mainstay subsidiary under the large state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation(CSSC). Its rich tradition can be traced back to 1914, Guangzhou Shipyard, the predecessor company of GSI, was founded in 1954. As the largest base for construction of navy support vessels in South China and a national high tech enterprise with National Technical Center and import and export autonomy, GSI has achieved an annual shipbuilding capacity of 3.5m dwt, and its portfolio of designs cover diverse types of vessels under 400,000dwt in compliance with the rules and regulations of major classification societies worldwide, it has acquired the core technology in a wide range of vessels including MR, AFRA, VLCC, VLOC, high tech and value added ships like Semi Submersible Heavy Lift Vessel(SSHLV), Ro-Ro Passenger, Polar Class Deck Carrier, navy support vessel and specialized vessels. With the closing down of its Liwan factory in downtown, GSI’s main shipbuilding activities moved to Nansha factory, which located in Longxue Island where is Nansha Free Trade Zone neighboring Hong Kong and Macau, covering an area of 2.53m square meters, equipped with two 300,000 dwt dry docks, four 600 ton gantry cranes, one 900 ton gantry crane ,five VLCC berths, and two 50,000 dwt shipbuilding slipwaysmore