Yantai Raffles Shipyard

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.

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 [www.plmv5.com/energy/downloads/BrianChang_YantaiRaffles_Houston06.pdf]

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

Yard Facilities

*72-hectare shipyard
*State-of-the-art building facilities
*World's largest gantry crane [ [http://www.zoomchina.com.cn/content/view/23772/254/ Yantai Raffles Shipyard to build rock-placing bulker - Zoom China Energy Intelligence ] ] with lifting capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes due for completion in July 2007
*One of the world’s largest [ [http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=41037 RIGZONE - YRS: World's Largest Gantry Crane Taking Shape in China ] ] dry docks (L430m x W120m x D14m)
*One of the world's largest [www.maritime.lv/catalogue_companies_list/ company_source_42820_2.html] land-based pedestal crane
*2 X 370 metric tonnes gantry cranes
*Fully automated warehouse that can store up to 4,000 pallets in total

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 seaFact|date=June 2007. The lifting of the complete deck box reduces man-hours by as much as halfFact|date=June 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.yantai-raffles.com Yantai Raffles Shipyard Website]
* [http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/Stock/ShowStockInfo.aspx?StockId=571765 Oslo OTC Stock Exchange]