On May 22nd, Anhui Port & Shipping Sealand Equipment Company and Singapore Winning International Group held a signing ceremony for the construction of four 12,000-ton deck carriers. This is the first international order for Zongyang Shipyard, owned by Anhui Port & Shipping Sealand Equipment Company, and also marks the shipyard’s first order since its establishment.
Zongyang Shipyard officially started construction at the end of February 2025, which is jointly invested by Anhui Port & Shipping and Shandong Port Group, with a total investment of RMB 670 million, and mainly engaged in shipbuilding, maintenance, dismantling and other businesses. The shipyard is currently accelerating the restoration of facilities and equipment, plant renovation and production line repair and commissioning, and is expected to be officially put into production in June.
Anhui Port & Shipping Sealand Equipment Company Zongyang Shipyard’s predecessor is the largest private shipbuilding enterprises in Anhui Province, Anhui Dongfang Shipbuilding, invested by Zhejiang Dongfang Shipbuilding Group. In 2008, Dongfang Shipbuilding’s Anhui base was completed and put into operation, and the first orders were signed for the construction of cargo ships with a total value of RMB 900 million (about US$125 million). However, as the shipbuilding industry entered a downturn, Dongfang Shipbuilding fell into an operational crisis and has since been seeking to sell assets and restructure.
In 2016, Zongyang County Government obtained the asset ownership of Anhui Dongfang Shipbuilding. In order to revitalize and utilize the resources of Dongfang Shipbuilding, Zongyang County Government actively promotes investment and accelerates the work related to the integration of the assets of Dongfang Shipbuilding.
In November 2024, Anhui Port & Shipping Group and Shandong Port Group signed an investment intention agreement in Qingdao. The two sides would improve the functional layout of the port, accelerate the new energy shipbuilding, planning inland waterway port and navigation equipment industrial park and other aspects of increased cooperation, re-combination of the revitalization of existing assets, reconstructing technology, management system, accelerate the Zongyang County Dongfang shipbuilding plant project cooperation landing. Eventually, Anhui Port & Shipping Sealand Equipment Company Zongyang Shipyard was successfully revitalized.
It is worth mentioning that up to now Zongyang Shipyard has signed orders for 12 ships worth about RMB 320 million (about US$45 million), and intends to build orders for 6 new energy ships, 10 chemical tankers and other types of ships, with a total order amount of about RMB 1 billion (about US$139 million).
It is understood that Zongyang Shipyard will be built into “a new energy ship repair base, a comprehensive three-dimensional hub port, an advanced intellectual new base, a port economic industrial park”. After the completion of the project, it will play an important role in the field of new energy ships, effectively reduce carbon emissions, enhance the efficiency of energy utilization, and promote the transformation of port and navigation industry to the direction of green and low-carbon.