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NATONG COSCO KHI SHIP ENGINEERING CO.,KTD. (NACKS) is a joint venture shipbuilding enterprise between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) and KAWASAKI Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI). The total investment amounts to 240 million United Sates Dollars while the registered capital is 80 million United States Dollars equally shared by COSCO and KHI.
The dimension of 300,000 DWT dry dock is 350M×68M×12.8M, equipped with two 300-ton Goliath dock cranes which are firstly designed, manufactured and installed by Chinese manufacturer and two 150 tons lifting cranes. The layout of NACKS is reasonable with advanced facilities and equipment, most of which are imported from Japan such as large scale numeral-control cutting machine, automatic arc-welder etc. Computer system is widely used in design, manufacture and management. NAKCS has passed ISO9001 (2000 version),ISO14001(1996 version)authentication of DNV. The quality control of the whole construction procedure is assured by the application of precision management and statistic technique. NACKS is the first domestic shipyard which has realizes the Zero-margin ship construction. Being capable of building various big and sophisticated vessels, NACKS’s annual capacity is above 700,000 tons.
Based on the production procedure and organization system adopted from KHI, NACKS forms its characteristic production and management style through technique-introduction → absorbing innovation. Now both production management and technology development have been localized. Since the start of its operation in 1999, NACKS has expanded construction capability dramatically to the range of four(4) types: handy-max bulk-carriers---the fifth generation Container Carriers--- 300,000DWT VLCCs --- 5000 units PCCs. By December of 2003, NACKS has successfully delivered 15 large vessels, including ten(10) Bulk Carriers, two(2) 5400TEU Container Carriers and three(3) 300,000DWT VLCCs.
At present, with the smooth proceeding of production and business activities, NACKS is becoming energic and flourishing as a modern shipbuilding enterprise: NACKS was honoured with the name of"The 500 biggest foreign enterprises“The 500 biggest I/E Enterprises in China”, “The 200 Trade Enterprises” , etc.
