On Dec. 20,2013,new shipbuilding contract for eight bulk carriers was signed between Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd and Thailand Precious Shipping Public Company Limited, among which four ones are 38800DWT series and another four ones are 64000DWT series. They are all energy-saving type vessels designed by Shanghai Ship Design & Research Institute (For short :SDARI) . The total contract amount is approximately 0.2 billion U.S. dollars. The owner previously cooperated with Sanfu for building two bulk carriers and gives high recognition of the quality of the made-in-Sanfu products, hoping to maintain long-term friendly cooperative relations with Sanfu Shipbuilding, the company said in its press release.
Complying with the market development trend, Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd adheres to the strategic positioning of regarding the product quality as the enterprise vitality, attracting its old customers from home and abroad to continue to cooperate with it to build new vessels. So far, Sanfu has gained orders for over 40 vessels in hand and the contracted delivery date has already been stretched to as far as 2017. Sanfu gives priority to high-end energy-saving environment-friendly vessels when taking new orders, and shortens design and production period by giving full play to the advantages of the batch production. In the meantime, Sanfu Shipbuilding is actively taking new orders for chemical tanker , LNG powered vessel, ocean engineering vessel to achieve the upgrading and transformation of the product structure.