Yantai Raffles Shipyard

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Yantai Raffles Shipyard is a shipbuilding company in Yantai, Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China.

Yantai Raffles specializes in offshore and marine fabrication and was listed on the Oslo OTC system in Norway in May 2006.

In 1994, Brian Chang founded Yantai Raffles at the junction of Bo Hai Bay and the Yellow Sea. The shipyard is in close proximity to Korea and Japan, an area that accounts for 80% of the global shipbuilding capacity. YRS is the only shipyard in China to be majority foreign-owned.

1 Company founder
2 Types of vessels built
3 Yard Facilities
4 World's Largest Crane
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Company founder

Brian Chang founded YRS in 1994. Previously, he has worked with various companies in Singapore and Malaysia in the marine industry, including Mobil, Jardine Offshore and Far East Shipyard (now known as Keppel FELS) between 1965 and 1970. In 1971, he started his own company, Promet (now known as PPL), which grew in size over his decade-long tenure. He has worked for 40 years in the shipbuilding and marine fabrication sector, overseeing more than 600 marine construction projects ^[1]

[edit] Types of vessels built

Semi-submersible drilling Rig
Jack-up drilling Rig
Platform Conversion
Platform Supply Vessel
Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel
Heavy Lift Carrier
Floating, Production, Storage & Offloading Vessel (FPSO)
Mono-hull circular column FPSO
Floating, Production & Offloading Vessel (FPO)
Pipelay Vessel
Fallpipe Vessel
Semi-submersible bare deck Vessel

[edit] Yard Facilities

72-hectare shipyard
State-of-the-art building facilities
World's largest gantry crane ^[2]with lifting capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes due for completion in July 2007
One of the world’s largest ^[3] dry docks (L430m x W120m x D14m)
One of the world's largest ^[4] land-based pedestal crane
2 X 370 metric tonnes gantry cranes
Fully automated warehouse that can store up to 4,000 pallets in total

[edit] World's Largest Crane

The world's largest gantry crane, with a lifting capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes, has taken over 7 years to plan and an additional 12 months for the preparation of its design framework. Upon completion in 2007, it will be the largest crane in the world enabling the shipyard to take on bigger and more complex projects.

The crane, capable of muscling up to 10,000 Mercedes Benz cars in one lift, allows the mating of an entire outfitted deck box of a semi-submersible rig onto its hull/pontoons in one single operation. The shipyard states that this will reduce work hazards at high altitudes and in the open sea^{[citation needed]}. The lifting of the complete deck box reduces man-hours by as much as half^{[citation needed]}.