We were just watching a documentary about shipbuilding at river Clyde. And now this good news from ph. I have only heard about the investments a few years ago. https://businessmirror.com.ph/hanjin-delivers-first-subic-made-20600-teu-class-container-ship/
Interesting, I used to work sometimes in the shipbuilding industry out of Busan in SK. I wonder why they built this in Phil. OkPo (?) has the biggest shipyards in the world capacity wise, dominated by DSME, Hyundai and Samsung. I hope its not cutting costs by cutting safety.
I hope you're not infering that a Philippines-built ship would be de facto less safe than one built elsewhere. Check the safety record of the Southampton to Isle of Wight ferry - I believe its name is Red Funnel Line. Its newer craft were built in a shipyard in Balamban which is on the west coast of Cebu, not South Korea.
No I'm not. Seaworthiness is not optional and is part of rigerous ongioing audits and sea trials. All the equipment and building will be checked and signed off in order to get its ticket. I was clearly referring to the ship yard health and safety. Between 2007 and 2014 37 people were killed in the Hanjin ship yard alone. I;d hate to guess how many life changing injuries have occurred. Just google it.
interesting: ive just been on the Red Funnel website--no mention of any ships being built in the philippines...unless they were started there and finished over here or in Europe https://www.redfunnel.co.uk/en/isle-of-wight-ferry/fleet-information/
It was a British shipbuilder which moved production to Cebu, but returned to the UK 3 or 4 years ago. I seem to remember reading that it was involved in the construction of a couple of smallish UK coastal ferries as well as the hull of an RNLI lifeboat. I'll try to find the article I read about it. As to Max's concerns, Subic is a first class facility and the US Navy poured millions of dollars into the base and trained-up a large workforce to work at their yards maintaining the US Pacific Fleet, a job shared with Hawaii and California.
I used to live in Balamban and as far as I understood it, the shipyards in Balamban are the Japanese Tsuneishi and the Australian Austal. I have never heard of any British shipbuilding firm operating there, although just occasionally there was a British worker on the site although they were few. There was always more Australians than any other western nationality - or at least I used to see a lot more of them around town, than anybody else. I wasn't involved in the firm professionally at all but overall health and safety seemed to me to be pretty good. However it is heavy industry so there was a steady stream of minor injuries, fractured shoulders, broken arms, things like that. Four guys were killed in a fall in the Tsuneishi yard about 10 years ago, that was a big local event, but if that has been the only serious incident in the yard that kind of timeframe, and I think it may have been, then I would not have thought it too bad a record. The West Cebu Economic Zone of which the Balamban shipyard is an integral part, now employs 11,000 workers, it has been a massive shot in the arm for the local economy. The area around the shipyard has got kind of semi-yuppified with one or two quite upmarket bars very out of step with the normal province kind of set-up. Balamban is now a 1st-class municipality almost on the verge of getting city status like Toledo, 25 years ago, it was 4th-class, the next to bottom classification.
