Recently, Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery (ZPMC) successfully won the bid for the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau’s deepwater floating crane vessel construction project, with the contract value reaching RMB 1.1488 billion (approximately US$162 million).
Recently, ZPMC secured another shipbuilding contract in the offshore engineering vessel sector. On November 18, ZPMC received an order from Far East Holding Group for one multi-purpose cable-laying vessel.
This multi-purpose cable-laying vessel, independently developed and designed by ZPMC, possesses unlimited navigation capabilities. With a length of 148 meters, a beam of 38 meters, a design draft of 5.6 meters and a crew capacity of 100, it operates at maximum water depths of 150 meters.
In the field of offshore vessel construction, on November 27, ZPMC officially broke ground on a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farms, built for French shipowner LD Armateurs.
The SOV that broke ground is the first vessel in this series, with all detailed designs completed by ZPMC’s Crane and Pipe Laying Center. The vessel is 90 meters long, 19.60 meters wide, has a design draft of 5.3 meters, and a crew capacity of 96.
The vessel adopts a diesel-electric hybrid power system with lithium batteries, equipped with cutting-edge technologies including DP2 dynamic positioning, 3D motion-compensated cranes, and wave-compensated gangways. It enables precise operation and maintenance in harsh sea conditions with an endurance exceeding 30 days, meeting the full lifecycle service requirements for offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Beyond this, the new SOV prioritizes crew and technician comfort in its design, aiming to establish the vessel as a high-standard “floating hotel.”