Sinopacific Shipbuilding’s Zhejiang Shipyard Starts Work on First SPP17 PSV Ship

On the morning of May 9, 2011, Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Zhejiang Shipyard started work on the manufacture of the SPP17 PSV series of offshore support vessel

for France’s Bourbon Company. This is the eighth ship to be manufactured on the company’s small ship line, and this ship is to be certified by American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
The SPP17 PSV ship is another model autonomously designed by Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, following after the SPA80 AHTS ship. The new ship has a total length of 61.80 meters, a width of 14.00 meters, and a depth of 5.8 meters, with a designed draught of 4.30 meters and a maximum draught of 4.90 meters. The waterline is 61.58 meters, the deadweight tonnage is 1,700 tons, and its service speed is 12 knots.
The Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group Sinopacific is a diversified corporation engaged in shipbuilding, trading and designing etc. The Group has 2 shipyards - Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd and Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The company has its own Research, Development and Technical Team and is fast-paced in business development. 

With strong forward-looking strategy, state-of-the-art facilities, flexible management concept and advanced technologies, the Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group offers a high quality service and products to its customers. The Group’s product line includes bulk carriers, container ships, gas carriers/ liquid cargo vessels and offshore oil platform supply vessels. 
The Group aims to emerge as the market leader in China’s shipbuilding industry by consistently reengineering its business process to seek new innovation and management style. Through an integrated management system, it achieved centralized resource management, cost reduction and increase of production effectiveness which builds up its solid foundation to continue its growth towards the leading company in China’s ship building industry.