Building a future

摘要

Ship owners look for three basic qualities in a ship: safety, eco-friendliness and cost-effectiveness regardless of the ship type according to Simon Liang, chairman and CEO of Sinopacific ShipbuildingrnGroup, one of the few private shipbuilders that has its own research and development (R&D) department.rnWith two shipbuilding bases in east China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, Sinopacific delivered 53 vessels with output value amounting RMB12billion (US$1.77billion) last year. The group designs simpler products on its own and cooperates with partners on the development of more complex ship types such as the Norwegian Ulstein Group and Seattle-based Guido Perla & Associates (GPA), explained Mr Liang.