Nacks Information

Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) is a large-scale shipbuilding joint venture between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI). COSCO, as one of the largest shipping companies in the world, owns and operates over 800 vessels with a total capacity of over 50 million DWT. KHI has two world-class shipyards, which are Sakaide shipyard and Kobe shipyard. COSCO and KHI have been enjoying a good cooperation for several decades. In order to take the full advantage of both sides' expertise, like the know-how of shipbuilding, shipping market analysis, business management as well as the Nantong's regional superiority, COSCO and KHI jointly invested 3.6 billion RMB£¤ to launch this new shipbuilding project. The registered capital of NACKS is 1.46 billion RMB£¤ equally shared by COSCO and KHI. The yard layout, with advanced production facilities, is quite reasonable. NACKS engages in the construction of various kinds of bulk carriers, 150,000DWT and 300,000DWT oil tankers, pure car carrier of large scale and super-Panamax container ships etc. Right from the start in 1999, NACKS, combining the advanced shipbuilding technology and production control system of KHI with the successful business management experience of COSCO, has made remarkable accomplishment as a rookie in shipbuiling world with great leap-forward development of successfully constructing 47,000DWT Bulk Carrier, 5400TEU Container Ships, 300,000DWT VLCC, and 5000PCC. With the constructing of 10000TEU container ship and 300,000 DWT VLOC, NACKS made further progress in high-tech shipbuiding field. NACKS has already acquired ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO18001 and ISO27001 certificates issued by DNV. Shortly after ISO10012 certification was also approved by the Government. NACKS was awarded¡°Top 500 Joint Venture in China¡±, ¡°Top 100 Enterprise in Heavy Industry of China¡±, ¡°Top 500 I/E Enterprise in China¡±, ¡°Top 100 Enterprise in Heavy Industry of China¡± etc. At present, NACKS is becoming more and more energetic and flourishing as a mordern shipbuilding enterprise at all-round production. NACKS will continue to achieve the great goal of being ¡°the first class shipyard in the world and the most advanced shipyard in china¡± and to contribute more to the development and progress of Chinese shipbuilding industry.