The Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Company (BSHIC) is a

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. It builds civilian and military vessels; it is China's first and only shipyard for

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s It is a part of the

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. It was formerly called the Bohai Shipyard.

History

The Bohai shipyard was founded in 1954 with a small slipway. Expansion in the 1960s included a large building hall with four submarine building bays and a

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. Construction of nuclear submarine started in November 1968. From 2003 to 2007, the yard expanded around the basin to the east. A fitting out wharf was added to the north shore, and two graving docks were built on the east shore. At one point it was part of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and directly owned by the

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. From 2008 to 2015, the yard gained through

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to the east. In 2015, additional submarine construction facilities began construction on the new land on with the first stage completed in 2019. By 2024, this added 20 more submarine building bays. In 2017, the yard claimed to have China's largest covered berths, two 300,000 DWT dry docks, a 150,000 DWT semi-dock building berth, and a 50,000 DWT flooding dock. It could build ships up to 400,000 DWT with an annual output of 4,000,000 DWT.

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External links

Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry website
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