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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Engineering
History

Presently, the ships and vessels made by DSME are considered the world’s highest quality shipbuilding market. It all started at Okpo Bay, South Korea in 1973 just as an idea. Six years later, the company built its first chemical carrier. In 1993, just 20 years after the start of the company, it ranked number one in the world in the amount of orders, in the same year it completed Korea’s first ever tactical submarine. In 1994, Daewoo shipbuilding and engineering merged with Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd. In the 1990s, the company went on to receive many awards such as the “Presidential Award for Precision Technology.” The 1990s was a big leap for the company as they started to build battleships as well as carriers and submarines. In 2002, the company created a set of core values such as ‘trust’ and ‘passion.’ Most recently, in 2013, DSME has built and constructed the largest container ship in the world.

Shipbuilding

DSME has been leading the world’s shipbuilding industry since the 1990s. The company has a total seven types of ship it built. The first and most ordered is the LGN carriers in which Daewoo constructs and builds with the quickest speed, superior performance,s, fuel efficiency, and superior steering at low building costs compare to other shipbuilding companies. The company won nine out of the sixteen orders placed for LNGCs globablly in a year. DSME also have the top position of the VLCC (very large crude oil carrier) with unbeatable technology with years of building chemical tankers, product tankers, shuttle tankers, and crude oil carriers. Additionally it is the only company that has built a 450,000 ton ULCC (ultra large crude oil carrier), the tankers are known for being environmentally friendly, having excellent maneuvering, and having simple maintenance. THe third type of vessel DSME constructs is container ships. Daewoo built is first container ship in 2001, the ship is powered by 93,000 horsepower engines with 27 knots as its maximum speed. The ship has minimal vibration and resistance with maximal storage capacity. The fourth type of vessel DSME provides to roll on/roll off carriers. It is designed to maximize vehicle loading capacity in limited spaces while minimizing deformation, the company is now currently working on an order built for 8,000 units, which will be the biggest car carrier globally. Daewoo has construct are ferriers or cruise ships. The cruise ships are considered ‘ultra high speed ferries’ with the maximum speed of forty knots with 472 passenger. DSME’s ferries are known for having elegant shapes, superior interior design features and having a solid and light structure. Additionally, the company build bulk carriers that could carry from 40,000 ton to 400,000 ton. Also, the 1,710,000 DWT (dead weight times) double hull bulk carriers completes the ‘MO Double Hull Requirements’, which since 2006 has been mandatory in order to reduce accidents. This requirement has been receiving attention from ship owners for its easy maintenance and simple unloading that reduce lower overall costs. The last vessel Daewoo provide are specialty vessels.

Navy

Not only commercial ships are being built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company, also Navy vessels in numerous counties. One of their customers is the Malaysian government who had orders 6 battle ships. This types of battleship is called corvettes, it’s a fast maneuvering for attacking and defense in coastal area. Also the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company receive the order of the six corvettes to be fitted with Missile surface technology for defense. The Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company also receive order to build submarines for the Indonesian government. Now England, Norway, Thailand, and Bangladesh governments also ordered the same battleships.

Technology

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering are also known to receive numerous contracts from different companies to build their ship. Also new types of technology to apply in their ship. One of these new technologies is the Diesel and Turbo’s selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and also their Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). This technology will help reduce the exhaust of CO2, NO, and SO gas in earths atmosphere, it will also be more earth friendly and fuel efficient for the next line of the new class of container ship that being build or currently in production. Also the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering ordered new types of new and advance globe valves from Bestobell Marine secures valve company for high pressure gas to develop and outfit their ship with the newest technology there is. The Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company is also implemented a nine bulker size with double bottom tanks that could hold ballast water in both port and starboard side of all their container ship that are currently building.

Developing Projects

The Daewoo company want to take shipbuilding to the next step by having their staff wear a robot exoskeleton that will provide the individual with superhuman strength. The chief engineer for this part of the company’s development and research is Gilwhoan Chu. He has stated the company has done many tests in order to improve the exoskeletons so it could be in regular use. When a worker wear the 28 kilogram suit, they won’t feel much of the weight as it is able to support itself and is created with mind the wearer’s movement. Just in its prototype form, the exoskeleton has a three hour battery life, allows the wearer to walk at a normal pace and could lift objects as heavy as 30 kilograms. There are different companies and industries all over the world that built big ship. According to Hai Hodson, the world’s largest ships that will be soon to be built we be located in South Korea as part of the of the project of the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. The company is located in Okpo-dong in South Korea. Also the company is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world. One thing that the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company doing different from other ship building company is outfitting their workers with exoskeletons to have human strength and they are the only shipbuilding company in the world who is currently doing this (Hodson, 2014). One of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering lead engineer had said that the exoskeletons have helped the production in the shipyard and also it help the workers perform complex work in ship building. The exoskeleton is very lightweight that the workers can’t feel the weight of it. The exoskeleton is 28 kilogram with a carbon, aluminum, and steel frame. One of the futures of the exoskeleton project is so it could make a normal human lift up to 30 kilogram. According to Chu the lead engineer of the project, is that they are trying to improve the exoskeleton to be able to lift up to 100 kilogram. The Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company are constantly developing their robots for shipbuilding.

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