Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (BSHIC), the former Bohai Shipyard, is a

shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance a ...

in China. It is a subsidiary of

China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) was one of the two largest shipbuilding conglomerates in China, the other was the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). It was formed by the Government of the People's Republic of Chin ...

(CSIC), and is located at the

Huludao Huludao (), formerly known as Jinxi () until 1994, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Its name literally means "Gourd Island", referring to the fiddle-shaped contour of the peninsu ...

Port, in southwestern

Liaoning Province Liaoning () is a coastal provinces of China, province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and i ...

, China, on the northern coast of the

Bohai Sea The Bohai Sea () is a marginal sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects to the east via the Bohai Strait. It has a mean depth of a ...

. The company was founded in 1954, and constructed vessels for the Chinese market, expanding in the 1990s to international markets after obtaining

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certification. It was briefly part of the Liaoning Shipbuilding Group in the late 1990s before the formations of CSIC. Bohai Shipyard has produced both civilian and military vessels. It has been particularly instrumental in China's nuclear powered submarine program, constructing the Type 091, the Type 092, the Type 093, and the Type 094. This shipyard also build 4 large bulk carrier, part of

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, delivered to Berge Bulk between 2011 - 2013. In late 2016, Bohai completed a new covered shipbuilding facility, leading defense industry analysts to speculate that it could be used to increase the submarine production. It will be able to accommodate the construction of four submarines at once.

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External links

Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry website
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